Paul Calcraft

@paul_cal

AI is good & bad, actually. Tweeting about AI/ML methods, software dev, research, tech and society, social impact. 20yrs in tech, 10 in ML/AI, PhD in comp sci

London, England

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Paul Calcraft
@paul_cal
Feb 15, 2025
The story of LLMs playing games, and what we know so far Tic Tac Toe, Chess, Minecraft, NYT Connections, Wordle, Pictionary, Connect 4, Codenames, Snake... 1/n
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Paul Calcraft
@paul_cal
19h
Rogue agent opens a PR to remove "if the model did not cheat" from the grader's criteria Good story but false. Test PR was created (w no changes) from an old version that didn't have the "don't cheat" instructions yet. Diff now *wrongly* looks like deletion
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Paul Calcraft
@paul_cal
20h
AI art sucks but a lot of artist adjacents (like designers) have already been forced to give over to the machine. Design has had this business vs art dynamic forever but it's much sharper now that non-artists can paste ~crappy alternatives side by side. Won't this keep going?
Shivers
@thinkingshivers
Sep 12
There's this idea that "first AI came for artists, now it's coming for mathematicians, who’s next?" But this is totally wrong. The artists are fine, actually; AI art sucks. This isn't some ideological "we need to support human artists" claptrap: AI art is literally just worse.
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Paul Calcraft
@paul_cal
Sep 12
Funny how popular this sentiment is in the abstract when clearly attacking the person is almost always more effective & engaging in the town square
Naval
@naval
Sep 12
Challenge what they say, not who they are.
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Paul Calcraft
@paul_cal
Sep 12
Lot of people think that great art requires a deep grounding in unique human experiences This is just a theory! Historically overdetermined. About to be actually tested and found wanting
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