The world is moving forward in its efficacy and convenience. A few years ago, logistics wasn’t anywhere near what it currently is, with food delivery services down to door-to-door parcel delivery now at our fingertips. The same is happening all over the world, in various industries. While many are consumer-centric, there are also advances happening in the professional world such as medical, science, and research sectors.
PQAI is one such innovation that will drive better innovation by providing the necessary tools and features that inventors will find useful in their quest to innovate. PQAI is first and foremost an open-source AI-based library of software components that can be used to accelerate innovation and aid in patenting. The search engine is a feature that attempts what Linux did for computing, and strives to empower inventors with advanced IP tools to drive diversity and inclusion.
The digitization of search engines and how PQAI improved on patent searches
Search engines were a revolutionary idea, made into a household name by the likes of Google. While Google wasn’t the first invented search engine, it has become one of the key benchmarks of the online world.
For inventors and innovators, Google Patents allows them to search for existing patents but it isn’t exactly layman-friendly. Users will have to use complex keyword strings in order to find exact results but there’s a new patent search engine on the rise that only requires natural language called PQAI Search. Users can type in “portable baby playground” and out comes the results. On Google Patents, they would have to use “infant play area” or “foldable baby play gym” in order to reach the same results.
Another key difference between the two search engines is that Google Patents act in a similar manner to its parent search engine, Google. You will have hundreds if not thousands of results, and you may only find what you are looking for on the 34th page. However, PQAI focuses on delivering the most accurate results and only presents the top ten most relevant patents to the searcher.
A.I. in the modern landscape and what it can do for its users
Gone are the fearmongering ideas of A.I. gone rogue. The technology of A.I. has become so integrated into society that we barely even notice that it’s there. The sophistication of the technology does not encroach on our day-to-day meanderings which is how it has slowly but surely seeped into our gadgets, software, and homes. Many digital platforms and services utilize A.I. in order to sort through the immense mountain of information available at any given time.
Take social media for example. There are billions of users around the world and everyone has different interests and tastes. Algorithms have been developed with the implementation of A.I. so that it is able to predict what other similar videos or products the user might be interested in.
For services rendered by search engines, A.I. is also hard at work behind the scenes in order to discover and bring forward the results that users are looking for. At PQAI, this is currently being implemented, which is how the search engine can understand natural language or simple English to provide users with relevant information.
PQAI leading the herd in further innovation by providing efficient results
If it is hard for people to figure out whether their ideas are patented or patentable, it drives a wedge between growth and development. Complex patent search platforms hinder the ability for inventors to figure out whether their idea is promising or not and they might miss out on similar inventions which have already been patented, stalling its growth by having the inventor start from scratch.
The truth is that more minds are better than one, and if there are existing ideas on the playing field, inventors might utilize the information that is available in order to make their product better, which in turn, fuels its growth. The search engine provided by PQAI will help people innovate in a smarter way, as the saying goes: a smart person learns from his mistakes, but a smarter man learns from the mistakes of others, or in this case, the ideas of others.
Open-source is the way forward in today’s landscape
Proprietary belongs to an older age with outdated ideology. In today’s world, information sharing is how we will be able to strive for a better tomorrow. Accessibility should soon become a given regardless of social hierarchy or positioning of wealth. According to experts at PQAI, the reason that they remain an open source software is because it is “the foundation for harnessing the power of the developer community to develop even more sophisticated search algorithms.”
By keeping it an open source, it invites innovation onto itself and also excarberates the very culture that they stand for: the sharing of information.
