Alexandra George

Disks and wheels of an early calculating machine

Ada Lovelace said computers could not invent. But a century later, Alan Turing pointed out inventiveness in machines could be found in their capacity to produce surprising and innovative results.

A computer representation of a lightbulb on a desk in an office building

The day is coming – some say has already arrived – when artificial intelligence starts to invent things that its human creators could not. But our laws are lagging behind this technology, UNSW experts say.

disloyal man from shutterstock

With internet memes, there’s a fine line between creating something funny and breaking the law.