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    The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

    Written by Marcus du Sautoy

    Narrated by Rich Keeble

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    Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference?

    As humans, we have an extraordinary ability to create works of art that elevate, expand and transform what it means to be alive.

    Yet in many other areas, new developments in AI are shaking up the status quo, as we find out how many of the tasks humans engage in can be done equally well, if not better, by machines. But can machines be creative? Will they soon be able to learn from the art that moves us, and understand what distinguishes it from the mundane?

    In The Creativity Code, Marcus du Sautoy examines the nature of creativity, as well as providing an essential guide into how algorithms work, and the mathematical rules underpinning them. He asks how much of our emotional response to art is a product of our brains reacting to pattern and structure, and exactly what it is to be creative in mathematics, art, language and music.

    Marcus finds out how long it might be before machines come up with something creative, and whether they might jolt us into being more imaginative in turn. The result is a fascinating and very different exploration into both AI and the essence of what it means to be human.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 7, 2019
    ISBN9780008288174
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    The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think
    Author

    Marcus du Sautoy

    Marcus du Sautoy has been named by the Independent on Sunday as one of the UK's leading scientists, has written extensively for the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has appeared on Radio 4 on numerous occasions. In 2008 he was appointed to Oxford University’s prestigious professorship as the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins.

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    • 5/5
      Little complicated to listen on the go , but if you have time and peace , you can sit back and listen , pause , go back , revisit and learn.
    • 5/5
      This was an engrossing book about AI in all its ramifications. With a firm historical and mathematical background, we are led through the use of algorithms, the way mathematicians use numbers, the relationship of music, and the meaning of human-machine interactions. Du Sautoy pays big homage to Bach and his his creative and sometimes hidden use of math. He discusses the library of mathematical proofs called Mizar in Poland, using the Turing test, and revealing mathematical fables. He looks at ELIZA and Watson which were to be stand-ins for human intelligence. He even mentions the use of Oulipo to give language constraint in the production of new literature.