IBM’s Watson team and Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics are pushing the boundaries of creative computing far beyond your next meal. Two years ago IBM started a ...

Can a computer program be creative? There is no doubt that software and computer code kicks ass at creation. From Photoshop to HTML to (dare I say it?) MS Paint, bundles of 1s and 0s can be incredibly ...

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 ...

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The creativity of a computer is based on various systems of artificial intelligence. Traditionally, artificial intelligence applications have been assigned a certain problem, such as interpreting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 15 years ago the British futurist Ian Pearson predicted that by 2010 the world’s highest-paid celebrity would be an artificial “synthespian.” That didn’t pan out, but now journalists and PR ...

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