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

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Du Sautoys discussion of computer creativity is fascinating Observer

CAN MACHINES BE CREATIVE
In The Creativity Code, Marcus du Sautoy examines the nature of creativity, asking 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.

Exploring how long it might be before machines compose a symphony or paint a masterpiece, and whether they might jolt us into being more imaginative in turn, The Creativity Code is a fascinating and very different exploration into the essence of what it means to be human.

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What a wonderful, brilliant, joyous read!Marcus makes it seem so easy, and such fun, to begin to understand that which appears complex, frightening and beautiful, and the magic of being human Philippe Sands

The Creativity Code is only partly a book about AI art. It is as much about how AI thinks and how it does mathematics du Sautoys own special subject. And on these topics, he is thoughtful and illuminating The Times

Du Sautoy is [] the light-bearer, illuminating not only the work of coders and creators, but the mathematics of chaos that underpin art and our emotional responses to it Hans Ulrich Obrist

Why could a machine one day not create a truly original work of art, write a moving poem, compose an opera or even discover a mathematical theorem The answers, in this compelling and thought-provoking book by mathematician and musician, Marcus du Sautoy, can be found by breaking down what it actually means to be creative Jim Al-Khalili

Fact-packed and funny, questioning what we mean by creative and unsettling the script about what it means to be human, The Creativity Code is a brilliant travel guide to the coming world of AI Jeanette Winterson

Fascinating book if all the experiences, hopes, dreams, visions, lusts, loves and hatreds that shape the human imagination amount to nothing more than a code, then sooner or later a machine will crack it. Indeed, Du Sautoy assembles an eclectic array of evidence to show how thats happening even now The Times

Absorbing study eloquent and illuminating Nature Magazine

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Marcus du Sautoy is a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and has been named by The Independent on Sunday as one of Britain leading scientists. In 2001 he won the Berwick Prize of The London Mathmatical Society and in 2006 gace the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. His book The Music of the Prmes' was published in 2003 to widespread acclaim.