Can machines do comedy? While AI programs can now write essays, generate code, and even mimic art, making people laugh is a whole different challenge because creating humor isn’t just about creativity ...

“AI is great at generating lots of ideas quickly,” says the study’s co-author, Zhikun Wu, a master’s candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. “But quantity doesn’t always mean quality.” Can AI ...

Anna Ridler’s “Myriad (Tulips),” producing impossible tulips via AI generation (ⓒ 2019 Anna Ridler) Hidden among the hundreds of items you scroll past, swipe aside, or click through each day is a new ...

A new study argues that AI can never be more creative than humans, but many experts argue that AI's output will only ever be ...

Remember when we thought emotional intelligence was uniquely human? That empathy was something AI could never grasp? Think again. New research from the University of Bern reveals that six leading AI ...

Imagine contacting an e-commerce company about your recently placed order. An AI chatbot instantly retrieves your order status or product details. But, when your query requires a more empathetic ...

Circa 1450, the creative community was jolted. The printing press had just been invented in Europe. Scribes, typically monks who had spent lifetimes perfecting the spiritual art of hand-copying ...

A group of pioneering AI experts say machines have achieved intelligence equivalent to humans in specific sectors. The "godparents of AI" addressed AI's journey to superintelligence at the Financial ...

When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...