The Creativity Code. Marcus du Sautoy

ago it was felt that humans understood what their algorithms were doing and how they were doing it. Like Lovelace, they believed you couldn’t really get more out than you put in. But then a new sort of algorithm began to emerge, an algorithm that could adapt and change as it interacted with its data. After a while its programmer may not understand quite why it is making the choices it is. These programs were starting to produce surprises, and for once you could get more out than you put in. They were beginning to be more creative. These were the algorithms DeepMind exploited in its crushing of humanity in the game of Go. They ushered in the new age of machine learning.