David Millard
@hoosfoos.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science @ Uni of Southampton, UK. Hypertext, Mixed Reality, Human-AI Interaction
This is fascinating. Very large models can read the weights of small models and intuit what those models were trained to do, and make direct weight changes to improve them. rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-...
Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, well past what we’d expect from humans or conventional algorithms.
rikiyat.github.io
New Substack post on the fundamental challenge that GenAI poses to assessment (no, not that one!) strangersnotebook.substack.com/p/turtles-al...
Turtles All the Way Down
Our assessments ask for artefacts. Generative AI makes artefacts.
strangersnotebook.substack.com
Thoroughly enjoying @hoosfoos.bsky.social's autoethnography on notetaking and augmentation (not automation) with AI at #ht2026. The friction is the point. doi.org/10.1145/3800...
Okay kids, where's the #HT2026 discourse? Today at the Narrative and Hypertext workshop, @hoosfoos.bsky.social and @drchargood.bsky.social appear to... agree about something? Crikey. Hypertext, genAI and the middle way.
Last week on Wonkhe: John Blake argues that the student loan book – a £300bn accounting fiction – is the single greatest obstacle to reforming how England funds its universities
Silence of the Loans: How Loan Book Fictions Prevent Higher Education Reform
New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
buff.ly
Interesting how many people are taking about Backrooms, and tracing the influences and “liminal spaces” etc. and yet how few mention videogames. I mean, Jesus, it’s a first person shooter. Hopefully, it might make people rediscover the Stanley Parable too.
OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
science.org
🌿 Biotopia is now live at the Natural History Museum of Funchal, rethinking how we engage with natural heritage: logaculture.eu/news-events/... 🎮 Meanwhile, the Closing Symposium explored the impact of #LocativeHeritage beyond #LoGaCulture: logaculture.eu/news-events/... #HorizonEurope
Post Xmas terraforming Mars, with new extensions Venus Next and Colonies - let’s Science the **** out of this!
Last week, Musicon saw a stunning performance of @hauntedplanet.com's reality art. @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social performed her music alongside Prokofiev and Butterworth's, with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social playing violin and @madshaahr.bsky.social demonstrating dreamlike graphics from an MR headset.
Attending the Future of Text at the Royal Society. Listening to a talk by the Father of the Internet, while the Father of the Web looks over his shoulder. Neither of whom are physically here. thefutureoftext.org/future-of-te...
Absolutely loving The Blue Prince (store.steampowered.com/app/1569580/...). The pacing is fantastic, every play a satisfying revelation. I thoroughly recommend buying a small notebook to accompany your journey - designing the structure and indexing system of my notes is almost as fun as the game :-)
Augmented Reality workshop: “Alice Dali AR” at Botanic Garden, Durham🌿 20 th November 2-3 pm #music #art on a walk #nature www.eventbrite.ie/e/augmented-... 🎵🌺🦋composer @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social narrator @madshaahr.bsky.social @durhamearthsci.bsky.social
"After The Browser Company’s Dia, Perplexity’s Comet, and others, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered browser that actively fights against the web." dctr.pro/2qo
Gamers are on the field- and Raven is always watching!🪶 “Voices of the Boyne” @logaculture.bsky.social @tcdscss.bsky.social #evaluation @madshaahr.bsky.social #locativeAR
Presented my paper The Shadow of the Machine (speculations about AI and the future of hypertext) at the NHT workshop at the hypertext conference. You can find the paper and video presentation on my blog: davidmillard.org/2025/09/17/t... #ht25 #nht25
The Shadow of the Machine
I have been attending the ACM Hypertext 2025 conference in Chicago, part of which was the Narrative and Hypertext workshop which I run with Charlie Hargood from Bournemouth University. This year we…
davidmillard.org
Settlers of Catan, with all the trimmings, still stands up with the best of them.
Playing this card each turn, and making *beep de beep beep* noise each time, has kept me entertained this whole game.
Warm Summer evening means Ark Nova in the garden. Wine helps my zoo game.
#LoGaCulture just presented at #ACM Creativity&Cognition'25! 🎮 Our pictorial paper shows how a digital game can foster inclusive, speculative engagement with Madeira’s natureculture heritage 🌿🌊🦎 #HCI #DigitalHeritage #GameDesign #SpeculativeDesign #RtD #HorizonEurope
A quick game of Akropolis - this game my city is temple tastic. And notice the barracks (in red) at the edges, safely away from the civilian population. As it should be.
All your Ad revenue are belong to us :-(
Private Eye Magazine@private-eye.co.uk · last yr.Google’s AI-powered search is cutting the need to click links, with early data showing major drops in web traffic. The Mail reports clickthrough rates falling by two-thirds when AI overviews appear, and Bain says 80% of users rely on “zero-click” results in at least 40% of searches.
And in other news, asking banks if you could access their vaults would ‘kill’ the bank robbery business.
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
If a British government carried out the same sort of political attack on Oxford or Cambridge that the Trump administration is on Harvard, the backlash would be so great among media, economic and political elites that it wouldn't last the day.
Well that sucks :-( also, why not check out @gamemakerstoolkit.com which is awesome!
megan farokhmanesh@megannicolett.bsky.social · last yr.I talked to @gamemakerstoolkit.com, who says a fellow YouTuber has recreated his voice via AI and is now using it to narrate their videos www.wired.com/story/a-gami...
