Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck. Maybe you’d sketch this: Easy enough. But then, imagine you were asked to draw a pig truck. You, a human, would intuitively understand how to mix ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest human-made drawings ever found. Discovered in a cave in South Africa, the cross-hatch pattern was drawn in red ochre and found to date back over 70 ...

Although artificial neural networks are getting a lot more intelligent very quickly (Google's AI even has incredibly trippy dreams), one limitation has been that most of these systems are designed to ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Brazil’s Seridó region has unearthed 9,000-year-old rock art that intriguingly features ...

Your college art history textbook needs a new first chapter. The earliest known drawing in human history – a red, cross-hatched pattern that looks somewhat like a hashtag – has been unearthed on a ...

Researchers have built the first computer program that can recognize hand-drawn sketches better than humans. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have built the first computer ...

It’s like Spotify, only for images. That seems to be the guiding principle behind Sketch-a-net, a new computer program that claims to yield “sketch recognition performance surpassing that of humans.” ...

If we can teach artificial intelligence to draw, will that help us communicate with it? As someone who's involved in both the app and entertainment industries, I’ve been tracking the evolution of AI ...