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Picbreeder revived with VLM agents
When AI agents rebuilt the internet's most creative experiment, they hit a wall humans never see
Sakana AI, MIT and NYU recreated Picbreeder with VLM agents to study open-ended creativity. The agents became trapped in repeating motifs, unable to make the conceptual leaps humans manage. Diverse personalities helped, but the gap between artificial and human creativity remains unexplained.
2026-07-19