Boden's 1998 Verdict Still Stings: Few AI Models Can Critically Judge Their Own Ideas
mircomusolesi · x · 2026-09-29
Sharing the closing lines of Margaret Boden's 1998 paper 'Creativity and Artificial Intelligence': 'Only a few AI-models can critically judge their own original ideas. And hardly any can combine evaluation with transformation.' The decades-old observation remains strikingly relevant to today's generative AI.
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