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Paul Callaghan

@paulcc_two

PhD on Evaluation of NLP (MUC-6), 1998.
Parsing & ambiguity, Haskell & type theory, Riichi Mahjong.
Once lecturer, now happy escapee from organised education.

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Reece Dinsdale 👀 (@reece_dinsdale) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A showing of #Threads on BBC4 tonight for those of you who have managed to escape it thus far. Just remember… in Sheffield no one can hear you scream! 😱

A showing of #Threads on BBC4 tonight for those of you who have managed to escape it thus far. 
Just remember… in Sheffield no one can hear you scream! 😱
Paul Callaghan (@paulcc_two) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Anyone around #Newcastle interested in trying #mahjong? Especially Japanese riichi style? Event on 9th Aug, please see FB group "Northeast UK Mahjong" & pinned event.

Ewan Morrison (@mrewanmorrison) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How to survive the crash of your own flawed product (GPT5). Push it into every govt. department at low prices, so that when your flawed product is exposed, those govt bureaucrats won't admit they've foolishly invested in bad tech & will keep paying. Govt. may even bail you out.

How to survive the crash of your own flawed product (GPT5). 
Push it into every govt. department at low prices, so that when your flawed product is exposed, those govt bureaucrats won't admit they've foolishly invested in bad tech & will keep paying.
Govt. may even bail you out.
Dad Jokes (@dadsaysjokes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Knowledge is knowing a Tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering if that means Ketchup is a smoothie.

Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 1990, Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov popularized the term "mankurt": a former human with an enslaved mind. Big Tech wants to make us mankurts and AI is their weapon. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strippi…

In 1990, Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov popularized the term "mankurt": a former human with an enslaved mind. 

Big Tech wants to make us mankurts and AI is their weapon. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strippi…
Gary Marcus (@garymarcus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check it out. Almost everyone in the major media is missing the real story around GPT-5. The real story is about how so many people (even big fans of OpenAI) were disappointed. And it’s about how that may well spell the end of scaling mania. And it’s about how the premature

Julian Togelius (@togelius) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I remember being excited about AI. I remember 20 years ago, being excited about neuroevolutionary methods for learning adaptive behaviors in video games. And I remember three years ago, mouth watering at the thought of tasty experiments in putting language models inside

François Chollet (@fchollet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

GenAI isn't just a technology; it's an informational pollutant—a pervasive cognitive smog that touches and corrupts every aspect of the Internet. It's not just a productivity tool; it's a kind of digital acid rain, silently eroding the value of all information. Every image is no

Ewan Morrison (@mrewanmorrison) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes, we are at peak AI. But the AI companies are attempting to push their faulty models into all aspects of govt and industry to spread out the impact from the AI bubble bursting.

Ewan Morrison (@mrewanmorrison) 's Twitter Profile Photo

IMHO - Open AIs strategy is to spread their faulty GPT chatbots into as many parts of the US & UK govts as possible so that when the AI bubble bursts - govts will keep paying & bail them out. Govts should renege on their deals w/OpenAI now, before the AI bubble bursts.

IMHO - Open AIs strategy is to spread their faulty GPT chatbots into as many parts of the US & UK govts as possible so that when the AI bubble bursts - govts will keep paying & bail them out.
Govts should renege on their deals w/OpenAI now, before the AI bubble bursts.
Ewan Morrison (@mrewanmorrison) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Being seduced by the AI business pitch takes 1 hour: "We will put AI into everything in your organisation to improve all productivity". Investment in the LLM tech takes a few weeks to organise and - few months to integrate. Realising that the AI tech you invested in creates

Tamas Erdos (@tamas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Over the past 6 months, I had the opportunity to try out lots of different mahjong rulesets. Of course I played lots of WRC rules Riichi, M-League rules Riichi, and various 3 player rulesets. But I also got to play JPML-A rules, MCR ("standard" Chinese rules), Taiwanese mahjong

Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On how the man who played Leatherface in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" taught me the meaning of life: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-le…

On how the man who played Leatherface in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" taught me the meaning of life: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-le…