Michael Osborne (academic) explained

Michael Osborne (born 1982[1]) is an Australian academic and scientist who serves as a professor of machine learning at University of Oxford in the Machine Learning Research Group in the Department of Engineering Science.[2]

In 2016 he co-founded Mind Foundry,[3] an artificial intelligence company, along with fellow professor Stephen Roberts.[4]

Osborne suffered from long COVID syndrome.[1] He is an advocate for masking to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID disease.[5]

Education

He has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and a BSc in both Pure Mathematics and Physics from the University of Western Australia.[6] He has a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Oxford.[7]

Career

Osborne has contributed to over 100 publications,[8] and his work has received over 24,000 citations with an h-index of 46 according to Google Scholar.[9] and has acted as principal or co-investigator for £10.6M of research funding.[10]

His career has focused in particular on Bayesian approaches to AI and machine learning, named after the famous British statistician Thomas Bayes.[11] Osborne's work has contributed to Probabilistic numerics, with Osborne co-authoring the first textbook on the subject.[12]

In 2013, Osborne co-authored a paper alongside Swedish-German economist Carl Benedikt Frey called "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?".[13] The paper has received over 13,000 citations and extensive media coverage.[14] [15] [16]

In 2023 Osborne gave oral evidence to the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on the subject of the "Governance of Artificial Intelligence".[17] His testimony received significant coverage around his warnings of the threat of "rogue AI".[18] [19]

Honors

He is also an Official Fellow of Exeter College,[20] a Fellow of the ELLIS society,[21] and a Faculty Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.[22] He joined the Oxford Martin School as Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment in 2015.[23] He is a Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.[24]

External links

Notes and References

  1. When I got #LongCovid in March 2020 . maosbot . 1450465063056420874 . en.
  2. Web site: home - Machine Learning Research Group . 2023-11-06 . www.robots.ox.ac.uk.
  3. Web site: Foundry . Mind . AI For High-Stakes Applications. Responsible, By Design. . 2023-11-06 . www.mindfoundry.ai . en-gb.
  4. Web site: 2016-03-02 . Oxford machine learning spinout unlocks big data insights University of Oxford . 2023-10-19 . www.ox.ac.uk . en.
  5. They say masks don't work, but . maosbot . 1730876772835581953 . en.
  6. Web site: About · Michael A Osborne . 2023-11-06 . www.robots.ox.ac.uk.
  7. Web site: Michael Osborne Academic CV .
  8. Web site: Michael A Osborne ResearchGate publications .
  9. Web site: Michael A Osborne . 2023-11-06 . scholar.google.co.uk.
  10. Web site: Michael Osborne . 2023-11-08 . AI for Good . en-US.
  11. Web site: Professor Michael Osborne: Meeting the needs of society with AI . 2024-01-05 . oxford.shorthandstories.com . en.
  12. Book: Hennig, P.. Osborne, M. A.. Kersting, H. P.. 2022. Probabilistic Numerics. Cambridge University Press. 978-1107163447.
  13. Web site: The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation? . 2023-11-08 . scholar.google.com.
  14. Web site: Carl Benedikt Frey . 2023-11-08 . scholar.google.com.
  15. News: Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne on how AI benefits lower-skilled workers . The Economist . 2023-11-08 . 0013-0613.
  16. Web site: Dunn . Will . 2023-01-28 . Carl Benedikt Frey: in an automated future, trade unions will be more important than ever . 2023-11-08 . New Statesman . en-US.
  17. Web site: 25 January 2023 - Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) - Oral evidence .
  18. News: Correspondent . Rhys Blakely, Science . 2023-11-08 . Rogue AI 'could kill everyone' . . en . 2023-11-08 . 0140-0460.
  19. Web site: 2023-01-26 . Rogue AI 'could kill everyone,' scientists warn . 2023-11-08 . en-US.
  20. Web site: Professor Michael Osborne . 2023-11-08 . Exeter College . en-GB.
  21. Web site: Michael Osborne . 2023-11-08 . www.ellis.ox.ac.uk . en.
  22. Web site: Michael Osborne . 2023-11-08 . eng.ox.ac.uk.
  23. Web site: Professor Michael Osborne . 2023-11-06 . Oxford Martin School . en.
  24. Web site: Academics . 2023-11-06 . aims.robots.ox.ac.uk.

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