Michael Osborne (academic)

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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]

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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]

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  1. 1 2 @maosbot (October 19, 2021). "When I got #LongCovid in March 2020" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ "home - Machine Learning Research Group". www.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  3. ↑ Foundry, Mind. "AI For High-Stakes Applications. Responsible, By Design". www.mindfoundry.ai. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  4. ↑ "Oxford machine learning spinout unlocks big data insights | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  5. ↑ @maosbot (December 2, 2023). "They say masks don't work, but" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ↑ "About · Michael A Osborne". www.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  7. ↑ "Michael Osborne Academic CV" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "Michael A Osborne ResearchGate publications".
  9. ↑ "Michael A Osborne". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  10. ↑ "Michael Osborne". AI for Good. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  11. ↑ "Professor Michael Osborne: Meeting the needs of society with AI". oxford.shorthandstories.com. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  12. ↑ Hennig, P.; Osborne, M. A.; Kersting, H. P. (2022). Probabilistic Numerics (PDF). Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1107163447.
  13. ↑ "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  14. ↑ "Carl Benedikt Frey". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  15. ↑ "Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne on how AI benefits lower-skilled workers". The Economist. ISSN   0013-0613 . Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  16. ↑ Dunn, Will (2023-01-28). "Carl Benedikt Frey: in an automated future, trade unions will be more important than ever". New Statesman. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  17. ↑ "25 January 2023 - Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) - Oral evidence".
  18. ↑ Correspondent, Rhys Blakely, Science (2023-11-08). "Rogue AI 'could kill everyone'". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 2023-11-08.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. ↑ "Rogue AI 'could kill everyone,' scientists warn". 2023-01-26. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  20. ↑ "Professor Michael Osborne". Exeter College. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  21. ↑ "Michael Osborne". www.ellis.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  22. ↑ "Michael Osborne". eng.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
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  24. ↑ "Academics". aims.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
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