Bill Mitchell
@batteredbluebox
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OBE for services to Computing and to Artificial Intelligence Education (2020), and have PhD in pure mathematics from University of Manchester (1987)
Joined July 2009
I've been awarded an OBE for services to Computing and to Artificial Intelligence Education! These things happen because of who you work with as much as anything you do yourself. Huge debt of gratitude to everyone I've worked with, thank you!
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Just published blog on @LinkedIn 'Agentic AI is mostly useless, but might still take your job anyway'. It really does mean 'your' job by the way, not some random other person you've never met! .
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New LinkedIn blog: Deregulating AI to enhance US dominance . Disclaimer: the guineapig does not in any way represent any prominent political figure from the US, at all
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Nerds' overview of #DeepSeekR1 here . It's generated by Google NotebookLM. Based on @deepseek_ai paper from GitHub here
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New article: An AI Opportunities Action Plan to achieve responsible AI adoption via @LinkedIn.
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Latest article: 'Generative AI productivity puzzle' . Really wanted the bunny to be on a bike with square wheels. Ho hum. You'll just have to imagine it.
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New article from me: Professionalisation of AI Assurance important says @SciTechgovuk .via @LinkedIn.
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Excellent read:.
What does the budget mean for productivity? Some of the critical stepping stones are being laid but it will all depend on execution, says @bart_ark in his policy commentary.
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RT @DameWendyDBE: But how do we report incorrect overviews and what happens to the overviews after they are created? Do you use them in fut….
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You may be interested in Microsoft #Copilot's assessment of Palantir's evidence to the House of Commons Defence Sub-Committee’s inquiry into developing artificial intelligence capacity and expertise in UK defence. You can look at it here
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Wonder if @peterkyle asked them if folding £1B Horizon funding into R&D budget is a good idea?.
Final stops for @peterkyle in San Francisco included meeting leading AI companies @Anthropic and @Nvidia. And at @BerkeleyLab he saw how they help early-stage companies develop biofuels and bioproducts into commercial products, which will shape UK policy on engineering biology.
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New article: Will #AI analysis of evidence submitted to the UK Strategic Defence Review add value? Premise: AI will need prior knowledge of lobbying to assess impartiality and validity of evidence.
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So only 6 handshakes distance between any two people on Earth. Well I'm now only two away from a Nobel Laureate thanks to @adamsonjulia. Nice to think @BCS were ahead of the curve giving Sir Demis Hassabis CBE the Lovelace Medal
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Just wow!.
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has awarded one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”. Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize
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Short article about @SciTechgovuk launch of Regulatory Innovation Office today. Chance to create a virtuous cycle of higher standards driven by professional practice
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Google Gemini outputs “I apologize deeply for the offensive example I provided” after answering simple questions on essentialism, see above link for LinkedIn article.
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RT @instituteforgov: EVENT: How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity? . 🗓️Wednesday 18 September, 17:30….
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