Tertulia Logo
Sign upLog In
Cart Icon0
Cart Icon0
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI, Marcus Du Sautoy

The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI

Marcus Du Sautoy

Paperback
Regular price$21.00With free membership trial$10.5050% off your first book+ Free shipping
Currently out of stock. Place a backorder.

Do you recommend this book?

Yes!

No

"A brilliant travel guide to the coming world of AI."
--Jeanette Winterson

What does it mean to be creative? Can creativity be trained? Is it uniquely human, or could AI be considered creative?

Mathematical genius and exuberant polymath Marcus du Sautoy plunges us into the world of artificial intelligence and algorithmic learning in this essential guide to the future of creativity. He considers the role of pattern and imitation in the creative process and sets out to investigate the programs and programmers--from Deep Mind and the Flow Machine to Botnik and WHIM--who are seeking to rival or surpass human innovation in gaming, music, art, and language. A thrilling tour of the landscape of invention, The Creativity Code explores the new face of creativity and the mysteries of the human code.

"As machines outsmart us in ever more domains, we can at least comfort ourselves that one area will remain sacrosanct and uncomputable: human creativity. Or can we?...In his fascinating exploration of the nature of creativity, Marcus du Sautoy questions many of those assumptions."
--Financial Times

"Fascinating...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 that's happening even now."
--The Times

Book Details

  • Publisher: Belknap Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 3rd, 2020
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.80in - 1.00in - 1.00lb
  • EAN: 9780674244719
  • Categories: • Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing• Data Science - Neural Networks• History & Philosophy

More books to explore

Book Cover for: The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma, Mustafa Suleyman
Book Cover for: A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins
Book Cover for: Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos, Ogi Ogas
Book Cover for: How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, Chris Wiggins
Book Cover for: The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, Henry a. Kissinger
Book Cover for: Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write, Dennis Yi Tenen
Book Cover for: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, Maryanne Wolf
Book Cover for: To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, Mark O'Connell
Book Cover for: You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place, Janelle Shane
Book Cover for: The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI, Paul Leonardi
Book Cover for: Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI, Reid Blackman
Book Cover for: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do, Erik J. Larson
Book Cover for: The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back, Jacob Ward
Book Cover for: Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers, John Maccormick
Book Cover for: The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology, Tobias Dengel

About the Author

Du Sautoy, Marcus: - Marcus du Sautoy is the Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and the bestselling author of The Music of the Primes, Symmetry, and The Great Unknown. A trumpeter and member of an experimental theater group, he has written and presented over a dozen documentaries, including The Code and The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms. He also created the codes for Lauren Child's Ruby Redfort mysteries. He has received the Berwick Prize, the Zeeman Medal, and the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize, among other honors.

More books by Marcus Du Sautoy

Book Cover for: The Music of the Primes, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: Number Mysteries, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: How to Count to Infinity, Marcus Du Sautoy
Book Cover for: Zeta Functions of Groups and Rings, Marcus Du Sautoy

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: QuantumVariant
QuantumVariant
@QuantumVariant
1 year

Artist - Abstract & Generative Art - Educator & Advocate. Be the Smart Contract, Not the Token. Weekly Newsletter - BAYC #6986

New book I’m reading. “The Creativity Code” Not HotDog 😂 https://t.co/wBJvMz8eDC

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins
@csm_news
2 years

We believe that art, design and performance can generate real, productive change. Central Saint Martins (https://t.co/1TAmEpXq7e) is part of @UAL

Join @shape_the_world online this Thursday for The Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think. Where Marcus du Sautoy will discuss his book ‘The Creativity Code’, a thought-provoking look at the nature of creativity. Book: https://t.co/lUNI0Q2Ava

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: AssemblyAI
AssemblyAI
@AssemblyAI
2 years

Access powerful AI models to transcribe and understand speech via a simple API. Try our no-code playground for free 👉 https://t.co/YPCK9mq5Qy

4/4 Non-fiction: @1littlecoder - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell @andfanilo - Resonate by Nancy Duarte @DataScienceHarp - The Creativity Code by Marcus du Sautoy @mervenoyann from the @huggingface team - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius @misraturp - Factfulness by Hans Rosling

twitter.com
Show more

Praise for this book

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
Algorithms are often seen as opaque or dangerous forces, fueling our fears of apocalypse/the ghost in the machine. But if art is an early warning system and artists the experts at making the invisible visible, then Marcus du Sautoy is, in this remarkable consideration of the limitations and possibilities of AI, the light-bearer, illuminating not only the work of coders and creators, but the mathematics of chaos that underpin art.--Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director of the Serpentine Gallery and author of The Interview Project
We seem to have convinced ourselves that higher-level creativity and intuition are uniquely human traits. Why? 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, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Presenter of The Secret Life of Chaos
As machines outsmart us in ever more domains, we can at least comfort ourselves that one area will remain sacrosanct and uncomputable: human creativity. Or can we? ...In his fascinating exploration of the nature of creativity, Marcus du Sautoy questions many of those assumptions. The Oxford mathematician, who is as adept at explaining complex theories in prose as he is on television, argues that so much of what we consider to be creativity consists of super-smart synthesis rather than the flash of inspiration.--John Thornhill "Financial Times" (3/1/2019 12:00:00 AM)
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 Sautoy's own special subject. And on these topics, he is thoughtful and illuminating.-- "Sunday Times" (2/17/2019 12:00:00 AM)
Fascinating... 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 that's happening even now.-- "The Times" (2/23/2019 12:00:00 AM)
Argues reassuringly that true creativity belongs to humanity...A computer may best any human at calculation, but it lacks that snippet of 'human code' that lets us know when an idea is not just new but meaningful.-- "New York Times Book Review" (5/5/2019 12:00:00 AM)
An ambitious meditation on the meaning of creativity and consciousness.-- "Wall Street Journal" (2/21/2020 12:00:00 AM)
A wide-ranging and fact-packed tour d'horizon of current applications of artificial intelligence in mathematics and the arts.-- "The Guardian" (3/12/2019 12:00:00 AM)
In a classic 1950 paper, Alan Turing asked: 'Can machines think?' ...Du Sautoy's test is different but no less challenging: can machines be genuinely creative? The interest, just as it was for Turing, lies not so much in finding a definitive answer but in examining what the question itself might mean.-- "Prospect" (3/4/2019 12:00:00 AM)
Absorbing...Eloquent and illuminating.-- "Nature" (2/19/2019 12:00:00 AM)
Algorithms that not only duplicate human skills but learn from their mistakes are what define artificial intelligence. But du Sautoy considers the possibility of reaching another stage: machine creativity, technology that is itself capable of innovation.-- "Inside Higher Ed" (2/8/2019 12:00:00 AM)
Technology is already controlling more and more of our lives every day, sometimes in ways we barely stop to think about. As programs slowly do more of our thinking, Du Sautoy reassuringly insists that there are, indeed, some ways in which technology can never replace human ingenuity.--Emily Wenstrom "Book Riot" (5/8/2019 12:00:00 AM)
Makes the case for why algorithms could match Beethoven or Picasso--or for that matter, the creative departments of advertising agencies.-- "Marketing Week" (4/25/2019 12:00:00 AM)
An interesting, reader-friendly discussion of how well computers can be creative.-- "Choice" (10/1/2019 12:00:00 AM)

What people are saying

See more