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Social Media Briefing — July 11, 2026

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Discussions today focused on computational creativity and open-ended evolutionary search algorithms. Sakana AI released a modern AI Picbreeder experiment combining classic algorithms with contemporary AI.

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Open-Ended Exploration & AI Creativity · 3Personal & Off-Topic · 1

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Discussion on integrating modern vision-language models and frontier LLM agents into open-ended exploration algorithms to model human creativity.

Today, things have come full circle. We are now trying to use modern VLMs and frontier LLM agents within open-ended exploration algorithms. We want to see if we can finally computationally derive the underlying mechanics of human creativity: serendipity, memory, exploration, and novelty search.
Open-Ended Exploration & AI Creativity
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Historical reflection on early neural network experiments using CPPN-NEAT and Picbreeder to study abstract art and cognitive processes.

One of my first journeys in neural networks started over a decade ago with implementing CPPN-NEAT! Back then, I built a clone of ‘Picbreeder’ not only to study the mechanics of neural nets, but to explore the human creativity process itself, and generate some cool abstract art.
Open-Ended Exploration & AI Creativity