Reviews and Advance Praise

Arthur Miller is one of the world’s most insightful thinkers about the intersection of art and science. In this profound book, he takes on a key question in the impending age of artificial intelligence: Can computers be creative?  Readers will be fascinated by his analysis of the unexpected talents of computers and also the more fundamental issue of what creativity actually is. It’s an important book for anyone who wants to understand the role we humans will play in a technologically-driven future.

With this quite extraordinary book Arthur Miller has produced an essential, readable and highly intelligent account of the manner in which machines can – and surely soon will – become involved in the process of creativity. In art, poetry, music and thinking – computers are now teetering on the brink of true consciousness – with implications both tantalizing and terrifying, as this necessary book so eloquently illustrates.

Arthur I Miller is widely acclaimed as a scholarly, insightful and prolific thinker whose earlier books have illuminated the symbiosis between the arts and sciences. ‘The Artist in the Machine’ addresses a hugely important new topic: he recounts many instances where artistic creativity is already being nourished by interaction with artificial intelligence – and speculates on the capabilities of more powerful machines. This fascinating book deserves wide readership.

‘The Artist in the Machine’ arrives at a crucial juncture in the history of AI creativity to examine the prevailing state of the art and to consider the road(s) ahead. If you are at all interested in the journey of artistic robots, from first flashes to final destination, this book is your ideal travel companion.

The Artist in the Machine is an excellent introduction, and primer, to the whole field of AI, machine learning, and machine creativity. Readers new to this discipline will be very well informed after reading this book, and AI experts will be sure to come across some hitherto unknown facts to perhaps inspire their future research. The computer research and recent advancements in AI described by Miller most certainly are part of the “Brave New World” scenario. He methodically explores this idea without the usual hysterical, dystopian/utopian/Silicon Valley hype associated with the future of AI.

Praise is due Miller for tackling a controversial and technical topic and presenting the content in lay terms. The author … points to ways in which the creative potential of both humans and machines continues to move forward.

Miller grounds his writing on AI in his longtime interest in creativity and genius.

In his recent book, Arthur I. Miller delves into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence algorithms that are changing human creativity.

Miller tackles in this book the very essential questions around how we define creativity … and effectively feels the pulse of AI.

In this book, Arthur I. Miller (author of several previous little gems like joint biographies of Einstein & Picasso and Wolfgang Pauli & Carl Jung) takes a detailed tour of creativity in the machine age, presenting us with 50 exceptional examples.

Although it is a work of non-fiction, The Artist in the Machine unravels like a James Bond scenario […] Dives straight into the world of art, ushers us through the headquarters of tech companies only to finally hurl us into a posthuman vision of machine-inhabited planets.