ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a synthetic automated knowledge discovery cog named Ashe (for Automated Scientific Hypothesis Explorer) based on the Model of Expertise introduced in this book. We envision a future in which, on a daily basis, hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, across the world will be collaborating with cogs able to perform expert-level cognition. Furthermore, these cogs will be able to communicate with each other and interact with each other at computer speeds far in excess of human/cog interaction speed. With billions of cogs out there thinking billions of times faster than us humans, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and processing more information in a few seconds than a human can in a lifetime, we might naturally expect cognitive systems to create original ideas, draw new conclusions, construct new theories, synthesize new solutions, or come to new realizations. This represents newly created knowledge and new intellectual property. What are the implications of autonomously-generated knowledge and automated knowledge discovery? Who owns autonomously generated knowledge? Is it communal property of the people at large? Can it be bought, sold, traded, and bequeathed to heirs?
