Publisher: 4th Estate
Author: Marcus du Sautoy
ISBN: 9780008296346
Format: Paperback
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Beginning with a rough definition of creativity as the drive to come up with something that is new, surprising and has value, the mathematician Marcus de Sautoy asks: can computers be creative? Discussing the ‘bottom up’ approach to AI which, rather than focusing on the human programmer, allows ‘algorithms to roam the digital landscape and learn just as a child does’, he considers the possibility that machines could go beyond the creativity of their coders.