Call me one of the older people snarked at in this blog, but a lot of this is collossal bullshit.
There is not 'a huge amount of low hanging fruit - trillion dollar bills lying on the street - ' in the 'intersection' of anything with 'the frontiers of the science of prediction'.
What possible credible interest in 'the frontiers of the science of prediction' is demonstrated by an employer that has sponsored lying about the costs of EU membership and the consequences of errecting trade barriers with our nearest and largest partners?
The job descriptions are depressing tracts of intellectual masturbation. Cummings has read some papers, and is going to have some cool people PROGRAM things and then something is going to change in the UK. A TED talk with most of the slides missing.
Pop-comp-sci buzzword bing. Machine learning. Tick. AI. Tick [oh why did he use both terms exactly?]. Data science. Tick. Python. Tick. Judea Pearl. Tick. Complexity. Tick. Networks. Tick.
Anyone with options, who does know what they are talking about, will surely see that he doesn't, has no clue what use such people would be, and will head for a tech / finance firm or finish grad school and teach.
I mean wtf would anyone in No10 do with a discusison of 'theoretical computer science'? [In a branch of the branching tree Dom is reading this and thinking 'him not knowing is exactly why things have to change' and another is saying 'but that's the point!'].
A reply makes me wonder HANG ON WHY ISN"T DOM GETTING SOMEONE TO WORK ON THE SUPERINTELLIGENCE APOCALYPSE THIS IS CLASSIC CIVIL SERVICE MYOPIA LEAD BOOTS THINKING.
Seriously. If you are writing about Cummings and Brexit and the new government. The person who wrote this blog does not know what he his talking about, and is so far from knowing that that he doesn't know how far off the pace he is.
Either that or he does know, but realizes there is no-one who does to control him, and he wants to have fund spending a couple of million hiring people to give him talks on cool sciency papers and what the hell.
The blog would work quite well as one of those trade-specific Dilbert cartoons to make us laugh at AI tripe. Two fat blobs with bubbles from the Dom character churning out those lines.
