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Conversations with people who have learned to see, think, and create differently.
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.
#7 Manon Mullener
Manon Mullener explores how improvisers hear music before playing it, how years of practice become embodied intuition, and why anticipation, risk, sincerity, and joy are central to musical creation. From melodies born during encounters and dreams to the stories behind her compositions, she offers an intimate view of creativity from within.
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#6 Denis Duboule
Denis Duboule explains how a linear DNA sequence becomes a three-dimensional animal, from Hox genes and embryonic clocks to cellular self-organization, before reflecting on scientific creativity and whether AI can produce genuinely new ideas.
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#5 François Pachet
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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#4 Gaël Varoquaux
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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#3 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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#2 Aude Billard
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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#1 Alex Carter
Maxime speaks with Cambridge philosopher Alex Carter about humour, serious play, and philosophy as a living practice.
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