van der Schaar's open-beginningness: transformational creativity for ML
MihaelaVDS · x · 2026-09-03
Expanding on her ECML PKDD2026 keynote, Mihaela van der Schaar introduces "open-beginningness": the capacity to recognise which phenomena deserve investigation and let them reshape the questions we ask. She argues transformational creativity is essential if ML is to enable scientific breakthroughs rather than merely accelerate existing research.
Related event: Van der Schaar to Keynote ECML PKDD2026 on Open-Beginningness(2 posts)→
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