Posted by Another book, perhaps for another week of researcher’s vacation, is “The Code of Creativity. Art and Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Marcus du Sautoy. Although the term “artificial intelligence” became really popular with the GPT Chat in 2022, the book was published in 2019 and you can already read from it how close the invention was.
The author is a mathematician and treats both creativity and its most obvious result – art – from this perspective. Especially since his wife, he declares, is an artist, which has a big impact on the layout of the content, examples and conclusions.
The book opens with a flashback to the origins of computing and the perception of the computer as an analogy to the human mind. We rarely realize that it was man who first created the computer as an analogy to his brain (at least that’s what he thought and that was the assumption), and then began to compare his brain to the computer. Such a closed circle was created, which Marcus du Sautoy also writes about in the following chapters.
We used to credit the trait of creativity and the ability to think creatively, but after this reading we will completely change our minds. It will turn out that what we can get from the GPT Chat today by means of nifty queries and having a dialogue with artificial intelligence so represented, was already working in laboratories and IT companies a few years ago.
The book “Creativity Code. Art and Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” shows the wide spectrum of AI’s use to create various works and solve problems that until today we considered typically human. And this is just the beginning…
About the author:
Marcus du Sautoy is one of Britain’s leading scientists, and is a professor of mathematics at Oxford University. He is also a member of the prestigious The Royal Society. He is the author of “A History of Mathematics” broadcast on BBC television.