num_pages: 336
description: The award-winning author of The Music of the Primes explores the future of creativity and how machine learning will disrupt enrich and transform our understanding of what it means to be human.Can a well-programmed machine do anything a human canonly better? Complex algorithms are choosing our music picking our partners and driving our investments. They can navigate more data than a doctor or lawyer and act with greater precision. For many years weve taken solace in the notion that they cant create. But now that algorithms can learn and adapt does the future of creativity belong to machines too?It is hard to imagine a better guide to the bewildering world of artificial intelligence than Marcus du Sautoy a celebrated Oxford mathematician whose work on symmetry in the ninth dimension has taken him to the vertiginous edge of mathematical understanding. In The Creativity Code he considers what machine learning means for the future of creativity. The Pollockizer can produce drip paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock Botnik spins off fanciful (if improbable) scenes inspired by J. K. Rowling and the music-composing algorithm Emmy managed to fool a panel of Bach experts. But do these programs just mimic or do they have what it takes to create? Du Sautoy argues that to answer this question we need to understand how the algorithms that drive them workand this brings him back to his own subject of mathematics with its puzzles constraints and enticing possibilities.While most recent books on AI focus on the future of work The Creativity Code moves us to the forefront of creative new technologies and offers a more positive and unexpected vision of our future cohabitation with machines. It challenges us to reconsider what it means to be humanand to crack the creativity code.
language: English
title: Creativity Code
publisher: 4th Estate