The Taste Bench Project

Taste-Bench

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Co-hosts Bruno Marnette and Philipp Zahn explore whether the next generation of AI systems can develop taste: the ability to judge what is good, choose what matters, and create work worth caring about. They discuss human creativity, AI benchmarks, research taste and the future of human-machine collaborationhttps://www.taste-bench.com/

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#3 Andy Tyler: what it means for AI to "get it" 08.07.2026 50:22

Andy Tyler joins Taste Bench to discuss what “taste” means in AI. He argues that taste is less about aesthetics and more about “getting it”: understanding intent, making good choices, and acting with agency. The episode covers AI’s progress in image generation, coding, writing, critique, and creative tools, while emphasising that AI is strongest when helping people explore ideas and make informed...

#2 Joshua Tan: AI Sovereignty Is Not Enough 01.07.2026 48:58

In this episode, Bruno Marnette and Philipp Zahn speak with Joshua Tan, interim CTO of Current AI, about public-interest AI, open-source infrastructure, and the politics of building alternatives to the frontier labs. On the topics of taste: they explore whether centralized models risk making writing, code, and design more uniform; how local models might better reflect different cultures and commun...

#1 Eleanor Warnock: AI Writing Is Glass 24.06.2026 1:05:19

In this episode of Taste-Bench, Bruno Marnette and Philipp Zahn speak with Eleanor Warnock, managing editor at Every, about AI, taste, and creative work. We discuss why AI-generated writing often feels brittle and how AI tools can help writers without taking over the parts of the process they care about. Eleanor also explores the gap between Silicon Valley and creative communities, the difference...