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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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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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!!
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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