The Creativity Code

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Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores whether AI can truly be creative — examining AI-generated art, music, literature, and mathematics through the lens of human creativity.

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Can a machine be creative? Marcus du Sautoy — Oxford's Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science — investigates this question by diving deep into AI systems that compose music, paint pictures, write poetry, and prove mathematical theorems. 'The Creativity Code' examines DeepMind's AlphaGo, generative art systems, and language models, asking whether what they produce constitutes genuine creativity or sophisticated pattern matching. A beautifully written exploration of the boundary between human imagination and artificial intelligence.

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