China is the runaway leader in generative AI patent applications followed by the US, the UN says

The new report on patents, the first of its kind, aims to track patent applications as a possible indication of trends in artificial intelligence. It focuses only on generative AI and excludes artificial intelligence more broadly, which includes technologies like facial recognition or computer vision. “WIPO hopes to give everyone a better understanding of where this fast-evolving technology is being developed, and where it is headed,” WIPO Director-General Daren Tang told reporters. Over the decade starting in 2014, over 38,200 GenAI inventions came from China. That's six times more than...