The Creativity Code: How Ai is Learning to Write, Paint and Think - Hardcover

Du Sautoy, Marcus

 
9780008288150: The Creativity Code: How Ai is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0008288151 ISBN 13: 9780008288150
Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2019

Synopsis

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Marcus du Sautoy holds Oxford University's prestigious Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins, and is also a professor of Mathematics. He has presented numerous programmes on television and radio, including the internationally acclaimed BBC series The Story of Maths and the comedy maths show The School of Hard Sums with Dara Ó Briain. He writes extensively for the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has written and performed a new play called X&Y which has been staged in London’s Science Museum and Glastonbury Festival. He received an OBE for services to science in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Fourth Estate
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0008288151
ISBN 13 
9780008288150
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
336

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780008288198: The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0008288194 ISBN 13:  9780008288198
Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2020
Softcover