Spent the entire last week at #CHI26 in Barcelona. For me the conference feels too big and weirdly narrow in what was presented. I know that LLMs are huge right now but nearly all posters/ papers were about some take on integrating existing LLMs into some other thing. Barcelona is pretty though

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

We're running a workshop at ACM UMAP on parametric modeling and design for complex interactive domains (game PCG, data/AI interfaces, interactive installations, etc.). June 8 in Gothenburg (in-person). If you're interested, send in a 1-2 page blurb outlining a position, demo/tool, or case study!

We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

Video up now of the great AIIDE '25 presentation given by our student Jonathan Morse!

COMIC: What Artists Do

This looks really interesting. Seems primarily targeted at cog-sci and/or linguistics research, with Portal 2 just the example problem-solving domain, but probably also of interest to game-studies and game-AI people.

Measuring daily progress :)

I only skimmed the abstract but if it is true this will open up lots of interesting work.

New York pals! Don't miss this one: @fredschroeder.bsky.social and I saw the traveling exhibition at Angoulême, and hooo nelly it was great!!

"Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its #datacentres’ water use… #Amazon executives warned that #transparency was “a one-way door”… “Amazon hides its #water consumption,” was one hypothetical headline" www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...

Thanks to everyone who has submitted to VINCI 2025! Looking forward to great program! Registration is now live at: vinci2025.games.cg.jku.at/registration/ #infoviz

On my way to an Eutopia network meeting in the city linked closest to the image from within the plane ;)

Last week we ran the 2nd in person meeting of the gametable.network cost action, the working group on procedural content generation for games met at the University of Gothenburg for exploring next directions and future work.

Short post by @rost.me arguing that calling LLMs "generative AI" is misleading nowadays, since generating plausible text is really only one of many things they do (he proposes the term "interpretive AI"). rost.me/2025/05/27/i...

Don’t forget to apply by Saturday! #SciComm #SciArt

@jorisdormans.bsky.social Hi Joris,just saw you are in bluesky what is the best way of contacting you in a less open letter way?

Yesterdays painting. With everything happening right now, the best thing I can do to regulate myself and keep from going into overwhelmed shutdown is just paint. If something cool comes out of it awesome, but the act of painting to get out of this shitty brain space is what’s important. #artsky 🎨

Final adjustments to a procedural world created for the second workshop of the EMERGENCE - Glider project - www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/cen.... #unreal #gamedev #PCG #codesign #frailty

As part of a European networking grant, I am visiting QMul in London. Not having been in the UK for some time feels weird but London has not changed much. The workshop is part of the www.gametable.network, if you are interested in boardgame research it might be worth looking into more.

Met yesterday for a colleagues project on "ai, disability and work", it is interesting to see what biases current ai gpt models have. I also look super ready for Christmas break :)

I think one of the most frustrating things about announcements like this, as someone who has spent a lot of time on R&D teams in the game industry, is how many *genuinely groundbreaking* things get cast aside because they aren’t visually flashy and conversely how much money goes to stuff like this

“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.

Final testing for the Glide project in preparation for Workshop 1. I am looking forward to it 😁 . If you want to know more about game tech being used to combat Frailty check out the link: www.emergencerobotics.net/trailblazer-.... @sgaudl.bsky.social #gamedev #Frailty #ue5 #RaspberryPi

Artists say they leaked OpenAI’s Sora video model in protest

This is another interesting case where AI picking up bad behaviours from people can actually help highlight those bad behaviours. www.fastcompany.com/91233844/cha...

Spending 3 days in Cergy, France as part of the EUTOPIA network and found myself in an architectural interesting hotel

Nice having Mark over for the first week on exploring parametric game spaces again together but looking deeper into understanding and engaging with the design space.

Super Happy to have gotten the funding and looking forward to the work this will enable us to do. I should also mention that if other people are interested in PCG and gen ai systems for game design, we would not be against opening up the project.

I'm hosting a day of talks at King's College London again next month, about games and science! Tickets are totally free, but we've got a limited number, so grab yours ASAP - we've got Kate Compton, @aiandgames.bsky.social, researchers from King's, lots more to come! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/next-...

It's out! 🎈 🎉 Ethical Games, the first special issue of ACM Games: dl.acm.org/toc/games/20... 13 excellent articles ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the industry.

Allen AI has released a fully open (weights, data, and code) mixture-of-experts model. It's super small (1B active parameters out of 7B total) but has good performance for its size. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.02060 #machinelearning #AI 🤖 🧪

AI, at least in healthcare , should focus on perfecting the solutions to the ‘boring’ problems 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/386/...

If you're in (or near) Falmouth on Tuesday, I'll be talking about Blue Machine as part of the Wayward book festival at 6:30pm. Do come along. waywardbookfestival.co.uk #books #Falmouth #ocean 🧪

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My thoughts on not really winning a Hugo. (Apologies for a long summary of much-repeated detail, this is my record for myself as much as anybody else. Feel free to correct me if I got anything royally wrong.) samtasticbooks.com/2024/02/17/r...

Our recent article on Sonic Dancer about movement/dance and generative audio with a focus on the making process just arrived today as a beautiful 4 page print in the interaction design magazine. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... am super happy with how the article looks :) 🧪

Winter in Göteborg is super nice, after over 10 years of living in the UK without strong seasons I am again reminded by the beauty of it

A new short piece by me and Silvia Carderelli-Gronau is in the new ACM INTERACTIONS issue as part of the MAKING/BREAKING section. tinyurl.com/hciatgu2401 I am super excited and happy to see this published and it is still super important to me

Spent some time on the weekend walking besides reading a PhD thesis I am examining soon. Weird how the New Year started but my internal calendar resets the year for me in 2 weeks due to marking ;) Anyhow, Sweden has some amazing weather in contrast to winters in the UK.

A really neat PhD opportunity at University of St Andrews in the UK on using Tabletop Roleplaying for HCI/UX. I've worked with Miriam and she's awesome. So I can only encourage people to apply (or forward to people who might wanna). www.findaphd.com/phds/project...