Rockin’ Patent – Stephen L Thaler’s “Device For The Autonomous Generation Of Useful Information”

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 5,659,666 Filed: 13 October 1994 In the name of: Stephen L Thaler Title: Device For The Autonomous Generation Of Useful Information What’s claimed: “An artificial neural network based discovery device comprising a first artificial neural network trained to produce an input-output mapping within a predetermined knowledge domain, the knowledge domain being incorporated within the first artificial neural network in a plurality of weights and biases established therein, means for subjecting the first artificial neural network to progressively increasing degrees of perturbation so that the knowledge domain of the first artificial neural network is progressively degraded […]