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Creative Difference

Conversations with people who have learned to see, think, and create differently.

How does a creative mind form?

Creative Difference is a conversation series by Maxime Gabella about people with a distinctive way of seeing and working.

Each conversation goes inside the questions, habits, tensions, and discoveries behind original thought: how ideas take shape, how minds change, and how creativity becomes a practice.

In a world increasingly shaped by AI, the series asks a more human question: not just what machines can do, but what people can become.

Episodes

Creative Difference episode with François Pachet

#5 François Pachet

Why AI Music Sounds Convincing but Not Interesting

With François Pachet, AI and music pioneer.

Maxime Gabella speaks with François Pachet about why AI can generate convincing music without necessarily making it interesting, from Spotify skip data and harmonic surprise to Suno, boredom, and the gap between production and composition.

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Creative Difference episode with Gaël Varoquaux

#4 Gaël Varoquaux

Can AI Become a Real Data Scientist?

With Gaël Varoquaux, co-founder of scikit-learn and Probabl.

Gaël Varoquaux explores what AI systems still lack to become trustworthy data scientists, from uncertainty and data leakage to the deeper discipline of evaluating answers and knowing when they can be trusted.

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Creative Difference episode with Claire Voisin

#3 Claire Voisin

Mathematical Creativity

French-language episode with mathematician Claire Voisin.

Mathematician Claire Voisin explores the creativity of mathematics: how definitions create objects, how proofs become trajectories through ideas, and how rigor, concentration, and beauty shape abstract thought.

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Creative Difference episode with Aude Billard

#2 Aude Billard

AI Works. But Do We Understand It?

With Aude Billard, professor of robotics at EPFL.

Aude Billard explores robot learning, embodied intelligence, and the mystery of how humans learn so efficiently, asking how we preserve scientific understanding when machines can perform remarkable tasks.

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Creative Difference episode with Alex Carter

#1 Alex Carter

Philosophy, Creativity, and Difficult AI

Recorded at EduFest Le Rosey.

Maxime speaks with Cambridge philosopher Alex Carter about humour, serious play, and philosophy as a living practice.

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