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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Old-school methods like the paintbrush and canvas aren't going anywhere, but computers are expanding our creative abilities. Three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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