Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 6hI've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing 172344809
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18hI'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 7391160
Reposted by Matthew Guzdialbrendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 17hThis month on PAPER LABYRINTHS, we chat with narrative designer and writer Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev about video game writing as a distinct discipline, information theory, weird fiction, and the AmWriting industrial complex. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/... 01810
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We have an opening for a tenured Professor / Associate Professor of Interactive Media "with an emphasis on interactive storytelling, worldbuilding, and/or playful design in the public interest". I'm on the hiring committee and happy to answer questions.american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssociate or Full Professor of Interactive Media Film and Media Arts School of CommunicationAmerican University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani... 12015
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMarco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨 [Token][ization] Paper Alert 🚨 Tokenization is a wildly understudied area of language modeling despite it having effects across all of NLP. Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the most comprehensive survey of the field. Check it out! 112333
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialAmanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 30/09/2026sometimes writing about bluesky discourse means you're just too deep in the echo chamber but other times bluesky discourse uncovers the unsettling reality that there are minecraft jokes coded into an official government website techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/a...techcrunch.comAmerica.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it's not a glitch | TechCrunchFor the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry. 2175
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialWIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026However, some see the doom talk as a distraction from discussions of the technology’s actual harms. Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest critics of AI, told WIRED believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. www.wired.com/story/the-bi... 37118
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The schedule's out - I'm speaking at the Roguelike Celebration again this year! My talk is titled "The City, The Street, The Lens" and it's about street photography, collisions in time and space and how to think about procedural generation differently. More here: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html 17622
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialAlfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 24/09/2026Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64 20871298
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We've got info up on the recommended hotels for AIIDE 2026, including the special rate for the AIIDE block at Mercure Belo Horizonte Lourdes! 010
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Jackbox Party Pack 12’s MegaPals is the ESP Game with scoring based on single-linkage clustering, a little gift for me and anyone else who needs lecture examples. 020
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They’re so, so desperate for large scale real world data from consumer’s perspectives. They will do anything short of just paying people to get it. 0102
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026was literally just referencing this—the “who is having the most fun, the player, the designer, or the computer” question—earlier today. it’s such a core concern when making something heavily systemic or relies a lot on procgen 317827
Reposted by Matthew Guzdialbrendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 25/09/2026Star Wars Zero Company has been nominated for two Golden Joystick awards - PC Game of the Year, and Best Supporting Performer (Vic Michaelis!). Vote now! www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti...gamesradar.comGolden Joystick Awards 2026: Vote NOW for your games of the year!Did your favorite games make the shortlist? Find out below 0182
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Someone asked Muse to dump its entire virtual machine file system, and it did 35417
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Digging myself out of a month deep e-mail debt, thank goodness it will never get that bad again! (behind Matthew an even larger e-mail debt looms menacingly) 180
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i... 31542161
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wait but I thought these folks were true believers of the possibility of recursive self improvement? 150
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialJohn Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Free preview of AI Through the Experts’ Eyes! (introduction) upittpress.org/wp-content/u...upittpress.org 173
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is going around as essential reading and for very good reason. Honestly the most incisive and full summary of the longtermism/x-risk pathology I have seen. Every stanza is a gem, and the closing is genius, but my personal favorite, because I have had this exact conversation almost verbatim: 87825
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialAIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We invite paper authors to submit companion software, dataset, or tool to the optional Artifact Evaluation. Accepted artifacts earn special recognition at the conference! Learn more: sites.google.com/view/aiide20... 011
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them. 5276110
Reposted by Matthew Guzdialbrendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 13/09/2026with Band of Blades back in the TTRPG collective imaginary, may I recommend OATHSWORN, a complete Band of Blades actual play set in an original world? Eldritch skies, body horror, political infighting, comedic interludes - we've got it all. oathswornpodcast.comoathswornpodcast.comOATHSWORNA Band of Blades Actual Play Podcast 04122
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialJake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally. 1125442
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/09/2026“these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods & ideas, & citing relevant previous work of others. … We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose.” 9758177
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We’re so deliciously close to the bubble popping. 1303
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 11/09/2026'A team of Stanford University computer scientists find that SLMs can find the same — or better — answer to the kind of queries that dominate current chat requests almost every time and cut compute and energy costs by between 60 and 80 per cent.' www.ft.com/content/4858... 731580
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026It means there’s potentially over a hundred billion dollars’ worth of GPUs in warehouses bsky.app/profile/drin... 2268595
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Can’t believe posting this didn’t get me multiple tech media exclusive interviews. 150
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The people building video games do earnestly believe that NPCs could crawl out of the screen ("like that ring girl") and kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. 181
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New from our lab! #COLM2026 When people generate stories, they don't just write one prompt. Instead, they explore narrative space via branching edits 🌱 We reconstruct 24k of these edit trees 🌳 from chat logs and map edit types, story formats, how they relate to tree depth, and more! 29629
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Thank you DLSS 5 for making my favourite character, Menu Warlock, look how I always imagined!! 09015
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Registration is open for AIIDE 2026, come on over! 032
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialAIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The deadline for the QDA-VC competition has been extended! It features a suite of problem spaces, simulated users, and baselines to test how well an approach can adapt to constraints under various situations. Submit your entry by Sep 15th. Learn more: sites.google.com/view/aiide20...sites.google.comAIIDE 2026 - Call for QDA-VC CompetitionDescription Artificial intelligence has been advancing rapidly, with the latest algorithms producing very impressive outputs. However, even the highest performing algorithms struggle to guarantee that... 021
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim! 2027390
Reposted by Matthew Guzdialblair @blairaf.com · 09/09/2026If you're interested in working on trans issues in AI policy or equity/justice in AI more generally, I'm still looking for PhD students! Email me if you'd like to apply 12219
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialJulian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Here are the initial recruitment ads - please spread widely and encourage talented candidates to apply! Postdoc: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... PhD students: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... More rounds of recruitment to follow!chalmers.seVacancies 186
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026the way you can tell this is bullshit emanating from a very particular SV strain is “engineered pathogens” 91087
Reposted by Matthew Guzdialmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana 153327610
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 07/09/2026azhdarchid.comThe Flavors of AI Guy You See on BlueskyBruno Dias' personal blog. 48826
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialRaj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Many of you might be interested in organizing LUNCH at work. LUNCH is actually a lot easier than you may think. You can in fact do it right now, especially if you find yourself suddenly having fewer coworkers to invite out to LUNCH. Others who have gone for LUNCH are very happy to advise 5454154
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialRoguelike Celebration @roguelike.club · 07/09/2026Excited to see y'all in our freshly painted MUD space with preview event speakers @martinpi.bsky.social, @matronboy.bsky.social, and Greg L. who made this lovely little ad as part of a coding demo for his talk! September 13, 2026, 2PM PDT | 21:00 UTC www.roguelike.club/event2026.html 05121
Matthew Guzdial @matthewguz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Getting older means pizza tastes just as good but you pay more for it later. I propose that instead pizza taste should increase linearly with age. Devs please consider for the next patch. 🙏🏻 190
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialPolygon @polygon.com · 04/09/2026A panel of experts said the game industry is currently in the worse state it's been in 40 years.polygon.com‘Worst Crash We’ve Seen Since the 1980s,’ Warns Epic Games CEOA panel of experts said the game industry is currently in the worse state it's been in 40 years. 4919838
Reposted by Matthew Guzdialblair @blairaf.com · 04/09/2026Announcing non-binding agreements with industry and telling Indigenous & rural communities with concerns about local infrastructure projects "we're the government you can trust us" is probably not a wise approach and is certainly not grounded in strong historical self-awareness 14722
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201069882
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialAIIDE @aiide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Missed AIIDE's deadline but still want to join? There's time to submit the The Experimental AI in Games Workshop and Workshop on Automated Game Design! Both are amazing venues on interactive digital entertainment! Go: wagd.site, exag.org 045
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialStephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026SCOOP: A few weeks before the launch of Star Wars Zero Company, most of the developers at its studio were furloughed The studio says they hope to secure funds to restore their pay. Some are skeptical it'll happen I learned about this via a bitter lawsuit: www.gamefile.news/p/star-wars-...gamefile.news‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launchThe details emerged amid a legal dispute between company founders. The lawsuit also provides an unexpected look into a studio behind one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games in years 361622627
Reposted by Matthew GuzdialMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yann LeCun throwing bombs at the ACM AI Leadership Summit 2020423