The Creativity Code

Art and Innovation in the Age of AI

By: Marcus du Sautoy

Narrated by: Rich Keeble

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 can - only better? Complex algorithms are buying our groceries, 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 we've taken solace in the notion that they can't 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. Programs like Deep Dream produce drip paintings that could fool students of Jackson Pollock; Deep Jazz composes music in the style of Duke Ellington. 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 work - and this brings him back to his own subject of mathematics, with its puzzles, constraints, and enticing possibilities.

Where 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.

©2019 Marcus du Sautoy (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Great book.

This is one of the most interesting books I've ever listened to or read ever.

really good!! didn't even think it would be

amazing book !
I just found it and didn't know it be that good.
I'm glad I got the audio book version.
I never heard about this book either

Surprisingly interesting and captivating.

Really made me think of what differentiates my intelligence from an artificial source. Thought provoking.

A Technophile's Delight

The purview on the AI revolution and the ways technology has both advanced and emeshed itself in all aspects of our world. A technophile's delight indeed.

Look at my painting Dave

"The Creativity Code" explores the connection between artificial intelligence and human creativity. The author analyzes algorithms' potential to generate artistic works and questions established ideas about the role of human creativity. The book provides a balanced examination of AI's benefits and limitations in creative domains. I especially enjoyed the insights on music generation and once again emphasized that I must, must, must read [book:Gödel, Escher, Bach|24113].

Published in early 2019 it precedes the huge leaps AI has made in the last two years, and I must say that it stood the test pretty well. The research is well-documented, drawing from academic studies and real-world examples. The writing style is clear, making complex concepts understandable. The book also offers insights into the history and future implications of AI in the creative realm. Interesting times.

P.s. Currently available as part of the Plus Catalog.