2025-08-17
Sad news. Margaret Boden's book The Creative Mind influenced my thinking on creativity early on. Her notion of transformational creativity remains relevant today. Of all the things people knock LLMs for lacking, transformational creativity is the true prize.
New York Times
Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, whose books helped shape the philosophical conversation about human intelligence and AI, passed away on July 18 at age 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.
2025-03-11
Important announcement (with job opportunities!): I'm thrilled to share that I just joined @LilaSciences as SVP of Open-Endedness! Lila is a new name in the AI space, but one you will be hearing a lot from. Their unique mission to pursue Scientific Superintelligence could not
New York Times
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences, founded in 2023 to build AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emerges from stealth with a $200M seed
This is all well-and-good...provided that this is actually the process through which science works. And it's not. — www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t... X: Kenneth Stanley / @kenneth...