Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at Oxford University. Fellow of @HertfordCollege. Tweets mainly about AI & Oxford.
Nov 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
FOUNDATION MODELS UK! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT FOLLOWS!
If you are interested in foundation models, this thread is for you...
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Foundation models (incl. large language models like GPT-3, BERT etc) are one of the most remarkable developments (out of many) in modern AI. [2/10]
Jun 27, 2022 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
Perceptions of neural nets over the decades... A thread. [1/30]
I believe it is accepted that some in the neural nets community feel badly about the way that the field was treated at points over the past four decades - particularly, I guess, after the 1980s connectionism/PDP boom deflated in the 1990s. [2/30]
Jun 20, 2021 • 58 tweets • 16 min read
Some great lectures on AI and ML from Oxford University. A thread... [1/32] @CompSciOxford@UniofOxford
So in the Dept of Computer Science at Oxford Uni, we run a distinguished lecture series called the Strachey Lectures, after Christopher Strachey, the first director of Oxford's computer
lab: cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/strac… [2/32]
Oct 24, 2020 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is having one of its periodic Twitter outings, and so here is a thread about AGI - where we are, and in particular, why I think AGI is so far away. [1/17]
In 1838, British scientist John Herschel carried out a simple
experiment to figure out how much energy our Sun emits. Basically: see how long it takes to raise temperature of known quantity of water by 1 celcius. High school arithmetic then gives you your answer [2/17]
