Meet Elbo, a striking piece of furniture, to say the least. It’s interesting not only because it looks a bit like a wooden skeleton, but also because of how it was designed: by a computer program.

Over the weekend, a senior researcher at Google spoke about how he and his team are trying to build a computer that can be creative. The inspiration behind the project, Eck explained, was to create a ...

We humans are obsessed with storytelling. We tell stories to people we meet and people we love. We can't get enough of the stories that drive movies, video games, television, and books. We communicate ...

New research is calling for inventions by computers to be legally granted patents. The research states that the rapid increase in computer power is posing new challenges when it comes to patenting an ...

Most of us are fascinated by creativity. New ideas in science and art are often hugely exciting – and, paradoxically, sometimes seemingly “obvious” once they’ve arrived. But how can that be? Many ...

You've probably heard music composed by a computer algorithm, though you may not realize it. Artificial intelligence researchers have made huge gains in computational – or algorithmic – creativity ...

Invnt Group’s Adam Harriden says that this year will test what we value. It might look like handing power to AI is the easy path, but it sacrifices what makes good creative tick: real human emotions.

In an issue of the French magazine La Nature dated June 7, 1890, I found an article about a competition for the design of a tower for the Paris World Exhibition in 1889. The winner, of course, was ...

Gamers know that the right controller or performance keyboard and mouse makes all the difference when it comes to getting an edge over competitors. So why hasn't the way we interface with software on ...

Will computers ever replace humans in creative professions and pursuits? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

Computers have changed the way we do many things. They have made difficult and complicated tasks easier. They are able to store, organise and analyse large amounts of information. They can solve ...