of other countries in generative AI inventions like chatbots, filing six times more patents than its closest rival the US, United Nations data showed on Wednesday.
More than 38 000 gen AI inventions were filed by China between 2014 and 2023 versus 6 276 filed by the US Harrison said the Chinese patent applications covered a broad area of sectors from autonomous driving to publishing to document management. Among the top applicants were China’s ByteDance, which owns video app TikTok, as well as Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and Microsoft, a backer of start-up OpenAI, which created ChatGPT.While chatbots with the ability to mimic human discourse are already being widely used by retailers and others to improve customer service, gen AI has the potential to transform many other economic sectors like science, publishing, transportation or security, Wipo’s Harrison said.