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The recent developments of artificial intelligence increase its capability for the creation of arts in both largely autonomous and collaborative contexts. In both contexts, Ai aims to imitate, combine, and extend existing artistic styles,…

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Interpretability of machine learning models has gained more and more attention among researchers in the artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) communities. Most existing work focuses on decision making, whereas we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Haizi Yu , Heinrich Taube , James A. Evans , Lav R. Varshney

Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have rapidly evolved from specialized, rule-based programs to versatile, learning-driven autonomous systems capable of perception, reasoning, and action in complex environments. The explosion of data,…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-growing research and development (R&D) discipline which is attracting increasing attention because of its promises to bring vast benefits for consumers and businesses, with considerable benefits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Alvin Chan , Xiaoli Li , Yew-Soon Ong

In this paper, drawing inspiration from the human creativity literature, we explore the optimal balance between novelty and usefulness in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. We posit that overemphasizing either aspect can lead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Anirban Mukherjee , Hannah Chang

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely applied to music generation topics such as continuation, melody/harmony generation, genre transfer and music infilling application. Although with the burst interest to apply AI to music, there…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Rui Guo

Creativity has always been synonymous with humans. No other living species could boast of creativity as humans could. Even the smartest computers thrived only on the ingenious imaginations of its coders. However, that is steadily changing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Raj Shekhar

Generative AI models are increasingly being integrated into human task workflows, enabling the production of expressive content across a wide range of contexts. Unlike traditional human-AI design methods, the new approach to designing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hari Subramonyam , Divy Thakkar , Andrew Ku , Jürgen Dieber , Anoop Sinha

State-of-the-art visual generative AI tools hold immense potential to assist users in the early ideation stages of creative tasks -- offering the ability to generate (rather than search for) novel and unprecedented (instead of existing)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Evans Xu Han , Alice Qian Zhang , Haiyi Zhu , Hong Shen , Paul Pu Liang , Jane Hsieh

Human intelligence's adaptability is remarkable, allowing us to adjust to new tasks and multi-modal environments swiftly. This skill is evident from a young age as we acquire new abilities and solve problems by imitating others or following…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Shrestha Mohanty , Negar Arabzadeh , Julia Kiseleva , Artem Zholus , Milagro Teruel , Ahmed Awadallah , Yuxuan Sun , Kavya Srinet , Arthur Szlam

Generative AI is radically changing the creative arts, by fundamentally transforming the way we create and interact with cultural artefacts. While offering unprecedented opportunities for artistic expression and commercialisation, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jacopo de Berardinis , Lorenzo Porcaro , Albert Meroño-Peñuela , Angelo Cangelosi , Tess Buckley

Intelligent machines with superhuman capabilities have the potential to uncover problem-solving strategies beyond human discovery. Emerging evidence from competitive gameplay, such as Go and chess, demonstrates that AI systems are evolving…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Levin Brinkmann , Thomas F. Eisenmann , Anne-Marie Nussberger , Maxime Derex , Sara Bonati , Valerii Chirkov , Iyad Rahwan

The rapid rise of AI-generated art has sparked debate about potential biases in how audiences perceive and evaluate such works. This study investigates how composer information and listener characteristics shape the perception of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-03 David Stammer , Hannah Strauss , Peter Knees

Artificial intelligence offers powerful new tools for scientific discovery, but the interaction paradigms required to effectively harness these systems remain underexplored. In this paper, we present findings from a formative user study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alex Bäuerle , Adam Connors , Alexander Novikov , Adam Zsolt Wagner , Ngân Vũ , Fernanda Viegas , Martin Wattenberg , Lucas Dixon

A remarkable feature of human beings is their capacity for creative behaviour, referring to their ability to react to problems in ways that are novel, surprising, and useful. Transformational creativity is a form of creativity where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Maarten Grachten , Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacón

This essay discusses whether computers, using Artificial Intelligence (AI), could create art. First, the history of technologies that automated aspects of art is surveyed, including photography and animation. In each case, there were…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Aaron Hertzmann

Machine generation of symbolic music and digital audio are hot topics but there have been relatively few digital musical instruments that integrate generative AI. Present musical AI tools are not artist centred and do not support…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Charles Patrick Martin

Artistic inspiration often emerges from language that is open to interpretation. This paper explores the use of AI-generated poetic lines as stimuli for creativity. Through analysis of two generative AI approaches--lines generated by Long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Olga Vechtomova

Social robotics researchers are increasingly interested in multi-party trained conversational agents. With a growing demand for real-world evaluations, our study presents Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in a month-long live show at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Boyd Branch , Piotr Mirowski , Kory Mathewson , Sophia Ppali , Alexandra Covaci

Text-guided synthesis of images has made a giant leap towards becoming a mainstream phenomenon. With text-to-image generation systems, anybody can create digital images and artworks. This provokes the question of whether text-to-image…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jonas Oppenlaender