Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to researchers, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then ...

Creativity is a uniquely human quality that’s difficult to define and, perhaps, even harder to objectively measure. Of course, that doesn’t mean that scientists haven’t tried, and a study published in ...

Creativity has long been considered tough to quantify. But an international cohort of researchers from McGill University, Harvard University, and the University of Melbourne are tackling that ...

Are you creative? This question is difficult to answer objectively, but now researchers say that asking people to name random words and assessing how different they are could be a new way to measure ...

For instance a word like “dodecahedron.” Picture its twelve faces, each one catching the light in a unique way. This geometric shape could inspire you to explore the interplay of light and shadow, ...

Our first associations to the word creativity tend to be about thinking: Think different! Think outside the box! But creativity is not just about thinking and having ideas. Monet did not just have an ...

Ms. Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and led its global task force on A.I. and education. I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given ...

A massive new study comparing more than 100,000 people with today’s most advanced AI systems delivers a surprising result: generative AI can now beat the average human on certain creativity tests.