“Can computers be creative?” He parses the actions involved in creativity — exploring, combining and transforming — and reveals the history of A.I.
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THE CREATIVITY CODE
Art and Innovation in the Age of A.I.
By Marcus Du Sautoy
Art and Innovation in the Age of A.I.
By Marcus Du Sautoy Image Du Sautoy, a British mathematician, wants to answer the question: “Can computers be creative?” He parses the actions involved in creativity — exploring, combining and transforming — and reveals the history of A.I. through the turning points in which machine learning has progressed toward these milestones. A key moment is a human-versus-machine contest in Go, a Chinese game of strategy believed to be the oldest board game still being played, where the rules and size of the board allow for longer, more fluid play.
When one of the best Go players in the world played a five-game tournament against the computer program AlphaGo, Du Sautoy watched with “a sense of existential anxiety.” He had often compared Go to mathematics and felt that if the computer won, it would be encroaching on his own intellectual and creative home turf. AlphaGo had learned from centuries of human play and also had the benefit of having played millions of games against itself, refining its code to develop strategies for conventional moves as well as shockingly new ones. One referee said, of a particularly surprising gambit by the computer, “It’s not a human move.”
AlphaGo won the match three games to zero, but, over all, “The Creativity Code” argues reassuringly that true creativity belongs to humanity. Du Sautoy affirms this even in the area of mathematics: “How will an algorithm know what mathematics will cause that exciting rush of adrenaline that shakes you awake and spurs you on?” 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.
312 pp. Belknap/Harvard University. $30.
DEEP MEDICINE
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
By Eric Topol
Topol, a cardiologist and the founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, flips the idea of medical robots on its head. Many of today’s human doctors — crunched for time, rushing to optimize billing and type up records while talking with their patients — are short on empathy and connection, and as a result their bedside manner can often be robotic. Topol begins with the story of his own knee replacement surgery, which, because of a condition neither he nor his doctor knew he had, resulted in terrible inflammation, scarring and pain; his orthopedist told him, essentially, to walk it off. A physical therapist chucked the standard protocol for a gentler approach and “rescued” him.
Topol’s argument isn’t that human doctors should or will be replaced by A.I., but that there are different fields and tasks within medicine that are best approached by one or the other, or the two working together. […]
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“Can computers be creative?” He parses the actions involved in creativity — exploring, combining and transforming — and reveals the history of A.I.
copyright by www.nytimes.com
Art and Innovation in the Age of A.I.
By Marcus Du Sautoy
Art and Innovation in the Age of A.I.
By Marcus Du Sautoy Image Du Sautoy, a British mathematician, wants to answer the question: “Can computers be creative?” He parses the actions involved in creativity — exploring, combining and transforming — and reveals the history of A.I. through the turning points in which machine learning has progressed toward these milestones. A key moment is a human-versus-machine contest in Go, a Chinese game of strategy believed to be the oldest board game still being played, where the rules and size of the board allow for longer, more fluid play.
When one of the best Go players in the world played a five-game tournament against the computer program AlphaGo, Du Sautoy watched with “a sense of existential anxiety.” He had often compared Go to mathematics and felt that if the computer won, it would be encroaching on his own intellectual and creative home turf. AlphaGo had learned from centuries of human play and also had the benefit of having played millions of games against itself, refining its code to develop strategies for conventional moves as well as shockingly new ones. One referee said, of a particularly surprising gambit by the computer, “It’s not a human move.”
AlphaGo won the match three games to zero, but, over all, “The Creativity Code” argues reassuringly that true creativity belongs to humanity. Du Sautoy affirms this even in the area of mathematics: “How will an algorithm know what mathematics will cause that exciting rush of adrenaline that shakes you awake and spurs you on?” 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.
312 pp. Belknap/Harvard University. $30.
DEEP MEDICINE
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
By Eric Topol
Topol, a cardiologist and the founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, flips the idea of medical robots on its head. Many of today’s human doctors — crunched for time, rushing to optimize billing and type up records while talking with their patients — are short on empathy and connection, and as a result their bedside manner can often be robotic. Topol begins with the story of his own knee replacement surgery, which, because of a condition neither he nor his doctor knew he had, resulted in terrible inflammation, scarring and pain; his orthopedist told him, essentially, to walk it off. A physical therapist chucked the standard protocol for a gentler approach and “rescued” him.
Topol’s argument isn’t that human doctors should or will be replaced by A.I., but that there are different fields and tasks within medicine that are best approached by one or the other, or the two working together. […]
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