ZEEJLF At The British Library: The Creativity Code: AI and the Arts

With Marcus du Sautoy introduced by Angela Saini

As Artificial Intelligence takes over human narratives, Marcus du Sautoy questions the shape of our future. In his new book The Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think, he expounds on how algorithms work, the nature of creativity and how engineers are tracking our emotional responses to art. In a riveting session, introduced by professor and editor Roger Highfield, du Sautoy, the Charles Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, discusses intuition, the creative process and its correlation with mathematics.   

Marcus du Sautoy 
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of six books, including his most recent, The Creativity Code. is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is the author of six books, including his most recent, The Creativity Code.

Angela Saini 
Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist. She presents science programmes for the BBC and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian and Wired. She has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Oxford and was a Fellow at MIT. Her latest book is Superior: The Return of Race Science.