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I hope there’s a similar precedent set to Alice vs. CLS Bank [0], stating that the same idea but implemented on a computer isn’t sufficient for a patent. It seems reasonable to me that solving a problem with artificial intelligence should follow similar rules.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/bad-day-bad-patents-su...

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I think there are two completely different issues conflated here. Inventions in the domain of AI, aka new algorithms, and inventions made by an AI. Once an AI is genuinely capable of new inventions it's arguable that it should have the same protections as its human co-inventors or tutors (assuming AI personhood is not a thing when this happens.).

An invention submitted by a group containing an AI co-inventor or using an uncredited AI as a tool could be in any field, not necessarily a software patent, so the "idea but implemented on a computer" doesn't really come into play here.

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