Reposted by Mattias RostYubing Zhai @yezhai.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The inaugural issue of ACM AI Letters is now published! AILET is envisioned to become the premier rapid-publication venue for impactful, concise, and timely communications in AI. Check out the thought-provoking articles at dl.acm.org/toc/ailet/20.... @rost.me @richardjeanso.bsky.social @acm.orgdl.acm.orgAILET: Vol 1, No 1 021
Reposted by Mattias RostMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Intriguing CHI '26 paper from @rost.me, "Co-Disclosing the Computer: LLM-Mediated Computing through Reflective Conversation". PDF: rost.me/assets/publi... 191
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 01/02/2026One motivation for this paper: Treating LLM outputs as static artifacts hides the dynamics that produce them: commitments, stabilizations, and path dependencies during generation. Proto-interpretation is an attempt to name and study that middle ground. 010
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 01/02/2026We often describe LLMs as “next-token predictors.” That description is correct, and deeply insufficient. In a new AI Letters paper, I argue for proto-interpretation: understanding inference as a temporally structured interpretive process. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...dl.acm.orgProto-Interpretation: The Temporality of Large Language Model Inference | ACM AI LettersWe show that autoregressive generation in large language models exhibits a temporal structure: each token is not only conditioned on the past but also reshapes the future continuation space. We call this process proto-interpretation: the probabilistic ... 130
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 01/11/2025Exactly, outputs are not invertible. Just hidden last layer activations before the linear transformation to token logits. I don't read this is saying that the weight carry information (such as proprietary data), but rather they form a structure making input-"output" 1-to-1. 100
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 01/11/2025Would love to hear your take on this. I think the mathematical analysis is interesting. But fail to see what interesting work it opens up. Not sure when you have access to internal activations but not the input. It's a transformer after all... It transforms. 010
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 18/07/2025LLM, Aletheia, and Poiesis. Offering yet another way to view LLMs that rejects the instrumentalist view. rost.me/2025/07/18/l...rost.meMattias RostResearcher and Coder 000
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 15/07/2025New post out about LLMs as relational. How language is a medium for thought, not a carrier of information. rost.me/2025/07/15/L...rost.meMattias RostResearcher and Coder 000
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 17/06/2025We’re hosting a workshop at Aarhus 2025: The End of Programming (as we know it) Rethinking coding in the age of AI—beyond productivity, toward new practices, tools & ideas. 📅 Aug 19 (hybrid) 📝 Submit by June 27 🔗 mi.sh.se/~shmnjn07/th...mi.sh.seYou are being redirected to https://glossy-twister-5ec.notion.site/Workshop-The-End-of-Programming-1c7e06f235ea80b09717ce04663c448e 012
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 28/05/2025Good question. To me, e.g. diffusion models output representations. LLMs on the other hand produce relational responses. That said, image generation can, through practice, become part of an interpretive, iterative process. 000
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 28/05/2025If it were just about generation, it could output random strings. But we care about what it outputs. We engage and respond (and so does it). That co-shaped process is interpretive, not merely generative. 000
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 28/05/2025Sure, the model doesn’t carry memory or intent. But that’s not the point. Even if it were generating an endless transcript, the moment a human reads it, the meaning takes shape in relation to them. Even a single prompt-response is a relational act of sense-making. 000
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 28/05/2025Yes, the model’s inference is stateless. But the turn-taking happens in the interaction, and it’s within that interaction that sense-making emerges. It's where the relational framing comes in. Interpretation isn’t something internal but it’s something that's enacted between human and model. 000
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 28/05/2025Generative put the emphasis on output, whereas Interpretive puts the emphasis on input. 000
Reposted by Mattias RostMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Short 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... 6157
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 28/12/2024Qwq on stacking three eggs. It's showing a lot of humour in its reasoning and is certainly taking its time to reach a final solution. gist.github.com/rrostt/be0fa...gist.github.comQwQ stacking three eggs on top of each otherQwQ stacking three eggs on top of each other. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets. 000
Reposted by Mattias RostHuman-centered AI @hcai.bsky.social · 18/12/2024🤖 From narratives of AI to its ethical landscape - @coeckelbergh.bsky.social takes us through a philosophical journey on the #HCAI Podcast. What does responsible #AI development really mean? 🔗 Tune in at hcai.se/podcast/24-1... #ethicalAI #humancenteredAI #responsibleAI #aidemocracyhcai.seHCAI Podcast Episode 12 - Democratizing AI with Mark Coeckelberg | Human-centered AI @ GUIn this episode, we talk to Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Media at the University of Vienna, about the evolving landscape of AI and its implications for society. Mark br... 0176
Reposted by Mattias RostHuman-centered AI @hcai.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Throwback to our episode on Human-centered AI-mediated Communication with @informor.bsky.social. Check out/listen to the full episode at hcai.se/podcast/24-0... #humanceteredai #humancetered #hcai #communication 082
Reposted by Mattias RostNiklas Elmqvist @nelmqvist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Some skills, like doing my taxes or filling out travel reimbursement requests, I will happily leave for cognitive atrophy. Others, not so much. In this blog post, I ruminate on how HCAI tools should teach people to fish rather than feed them. niklaselmqvist.medium.com/teach-a-man-...niklaselmqvist.medium.comTeach A Man To FishWhen can cognitive atrophy be a good thing? 041
Reposted by Mattias RostAlan Said @alansaid.com · 22/11/2024We had a great discussion with @nelmqvist.bsky.social about how AI, HCI, and data visalization can work together to develop tools that support us. Check out the episode ⬇️ 041
Reposted by Mattias RostHuman-centered AI @hcai.bsky.social · 22/11/2024🚀 What role does #AI play in amplifying and augmenting human abilities? @nelmqvist.bsky.social joins the #HCAI Podcast to discuss the intersection of data visualization, #HCI, and AI tools that empower, not replace, us. 🔗 Listen now hcai.se/podcast/24-1... #humancenteredai #datavizhcai.seHCAI Podcast Episode 11 - Ubiquitous HCAI with Niklas Elmqvist | Human-centered AI @ GUIn this episode, we discuss the evolving intersection of human-computer interaction and AI with Niklas Elmqvist, a professor at Aarhus University and expert in data visualization. Niklas shares his in... 065
Mattias Rost @rost.me · 20/11/2024What have you tried using? I've never as much fun coding as when I assist it using LLMs. 010
Reposted by Mattias RostHuman-centered AI @hcai.bsky.social · 15/05/2024New episode of the HCAI podcast! We had the privilege to speak to @j2bryson.bsky.social on governance, policymaking, regional control, and philosophy. You'll find links to the episode below #HCAI #AIAct #DSA #AIGovernance #AIPolicy #GDPR #CCPA #humancenteredartificialintelligence #humancenteredaihcai.seHCAI Podcast Episode 6 - Governing AI with Joanna Bryson | Human-centered AI @ GUThe sixtth episode of the HCAI podcast in which we talk about artificial intelligence governance with Joanna Bryson. 053
Reposted by Mattias RostHuman-centered AI @hcai.bsky.social · 10/06/2024A few weeks ago, we had a great discussion with Natali Helberger about human-centricity, transparency, policy, and use of AI. The episode it out now. hcai.se/podcast/24-0... #humancenteredartificialintelligence #hcai #transparency #transparentai #aigovernancehcai.seHCAI Podcast Episode 7 - Human-centered Transparency with Natali Helberger | Human-centered AI @ GUThe seventh episode of the HCAI podcast in which we talk about transparency, interdisciplinarity, and use of technology with Natali Helberger. 022
Reposted by Mattias RostHuman-centered AI @hcai.bsky.social · 09/09/2024Last month, we had a great chat with #CornellTech's Mor Naaman about Human-centered AI-mediated communication. Listen to our conversation in the latest episode of the HCAI podcast hcai.se/podcast/24-0... #humancenteredartificialintelligence #aimediatecommunication #hcaihcai.seHCAI Podcast Episode 9 - Human-centered AI-mediated Communication with Mor Naaman | Human-centered AI @ GUThe ningth episode of the HCAI podcast in which we talk about how AI is impacting communication between people, online as well as offline, with Mor Naaman. 022
Reposted by Mattias RostAlan Said @alansaid.com · 23/09/2024Having this podcast has been the best excuse ever to get to speak to people that do some of the most interesting work in #AI (even though our focus remains to be #HCAI). In the latest episode, we spoke to Ricardo Baeza-Yates - a data scientist since decades (before data science was a "thing"). 011
