Michael Osborne

Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford

Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her

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A hill I will die on: "Foundation Model", "Large Language Model", "Reasoning Model", "Generative AI", and even "Deep Learning" are all bad names. The field keeps naming things by what it hopes they are rather than what they do.

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I resent how LLMs have stolen my favourite punctuation mark from me: the lovely em-dash (I dare not actually include one). And they don’t even use it right!!

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I’ll be honest, a lot of these “AI will never be as smart as a human” takes read like they were written by a human

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AI has decisively lost trans women, surely one of the most tech-positive demographics around. Trans women will happily spend hours discussing their favourite Linux distro, but do not admit to finding LLMs useful in a trans discord. Shame on Big Tech for draining the joy from my special interest.

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As true for AI as anything else: racing only makes sense if you know there is a finish line and it is a place you want to reach

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Is modern AI safe? No. But is modern AI at least becoming more safe? Not really. But is this powerful technology in the hands of folks who have repeatedly proved themselves to be competent, wise and motivated only by the greater good? Errr

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