neat write-up in Scientific American of our recent paper on how and why children learn to use 'loopholes' (work lead by Bridgers and Parece, with interesting comments by Laura Wagner) (the opening is about a time my son was a smart-ass) scientificamerican.com/article/why-le…

What if AI could write creative stories & insightful #DeepResearch reports like an expert? Our heterogeneous recursive planning [1] enables this via adaptive subgoals [2] & dynamic execution. Agents dynamically replan & weave retrieval, reasoning, & composition mid-flow. Explore

We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich. Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible. More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf Feel free to share broadly!

Looking for a Ph.D. position? 🧪👩‍🔬 Come and join our super cool group in Munich! 🥳 We have an enjoyable, collaborative, and inclusive environment where the level of scientific curiosity is truly refreshing! 🤓🥰

What role can AI play in unlocking musical creativity? At #CHI2025 (🥇 Best Paper Award 🥇), we present Amuse: a songwriting tool for musicians that turns photos, sounds, and stories into chords 🎶 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2412.18940 🎧 yewon-kim.com/amuse/

Thank you for featuring my work! 😃🥳🤩 I'm currently investigating more of the process mechanisms adopted by humans (and AI) in divergent thinking!

Breaking news 🚨💥🚀 My work is featured in a news magazine!!! 📰🆕 frankfurt-live.com/fast-wie-wir-k… This one is going down in my personal walk of fame 🥹⭐️🏆 Thanks to my amazing mentors Peter Dayan and Claire Stevenson, and to Sophia Jahns for writing this article so well ☺️

Last day to submits abstracts for flash talks at our upcoming workshop 😊

We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with Seth Frey, now on 🦋🦋🦋,Nori Jacoby,Dalton Conley, & Ofer Tchernichovski. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

Thrilled to share our latest #LabSession with Grammy winner & Indian film composer Shankar Mahadevan! Shankar brought a wealth of knowledge to refine Music AI Sandbox, an experimental tool helping songwriters, musicians, and producers realize their vision. Watch full vid:

Some years ago, I got trapped in a Massive Trough of Imposter Syndrome. It took more than a year to dig myself out of it, but the following framework really helped me. It feels a bit vulnerable to share, but I hope it might help a few others too! A short thread 🧵🙂

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In Nature Human Behaviour, Chaz Firestone & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/psya…

1/ 🚨 Updated preprint: “Generating Computational Cognitive Models using Large Language Models” 👥 Co-led by Milena Rmus with Marvin Mathony, Tobias Ludwig & Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI 📄 Check full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00879

LLMs still struggle with creativity. How can we make them more creative? Train AI on what people actually consider creative. We built a dataset of 200k+ human creativity ratings and used it to train a model that outperforms GPT-4o on creativity tests. arxiv.org/abs/2505.14442

Are AI scientists already better than human researchers? We recruited 43 PhD students to spend 3 months executing research ideas proposed by an LLM agent vs human experts. Main finding: LLM ideas result in worse projects than human ideas.

The COCOCOlab at Cornell University is hiring a lab manager. Focus: Computational music cognition Skills: Python, R, machine learning, strong work ethic Role: Run global experiments, develop experiments, grow as a researcher. I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025—feel free to reach out!

The single most undervalued fact of mathematics: mathematical expressions are graphs, and graphs are matrices. Yes, I know. You already heard this from me, but hear me out. Viewing neural networks as graphs is the idea that led to their success.

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!

🚨 BREAKING: Open-source AI just killed the 3D modeling industry. Hunyuan 3D-2.1 turns any flat image into studio-quality 3D models in seconds. Here’s how it works:👇

A year ago, I left DeepMind to chase a crazy dream with Spellbrush: to bring anime characters to life. Last week, my colleague and I put our in-house AI models to the test. We made this short anime from scratch in 48 hours. 1/3