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Catherine Breslin

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AI scientist & consultant :: prev Amazon Alexa, Toshiba, Cam Uni :: voice & language tech :: powered by coffee :: photographer :: Cambridge UK https://www.catherinebreslin.co.uk

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Do you want to hear about Glasgow’s tech ecosystem? open.spotify.com/episode/0zyD...

Building Glasgow's tech ecosystem with STAC's Paul Wilson

Fireside AI · Episode

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Jul 29

Latest newsletter! aixinsights.substack.com/p/july-round...

July Roundup

Hello friends!

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thanks for sharing! Love the prompts. Georgina, I think you’re right about monitoring & testing, and I’d expand that beyond just biases. I’d love to see more people thinking about how they can proactively judge AI’s performance across different these different factors

Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Jun 11

New ppdcast episode! Data literacy and career empowerment 👇🏻 open.spotify.com/episode/6ofA...

Data Literacy and Career Empowerment with Bhagya Reddy

Fireside AI · Episode

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ai@cam @ai.cam.ac.uk · Jun 5

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Jun 2

Some views of Cambridge 📸

Trinity college bridge over the river cam

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 23

I think figuring out what AI has done right or wrong is the challenge!

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 22

May’s newsletter is here - with some of my AI reading this month 👇🏻 aixinsights.substack.com/p/may-roundu...

May Roundup

Hello friends!

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 21

Yes, I think Signapse must be the people behind it, nice to see them in the wild!

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 21

Not a replacement, but it went alongside the audio announcement.

As for why not text… BSL is an entire different language to English, so text & sign aren’t equivalent. It’s like having English text available to me in France to save me struggling to interpret the French.

Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 20

For the first time this week, I saw sign language on the train station boards 🙌🏻

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks for coming along! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the day

Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 15

Haha, it’s immortalised now 😅

Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 15

Starting the day speaking about AI at @agilemanc.bsky.social

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 6

AI & Voice technology for improving education? New podcast episode! 👇🏻 open.spotify.com/episode/3bBu...

Building Voice Tech for Education with Mauro Nicolao at Soapbox Labs

Fireside AI · Episode

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 17

April’s newsletter is out! A roundup of some of the interesting AI stuff I found this month 👇🏻 aixinsights.substack.com/p/april-roun...

April Roundup: Studio Ghibli, Llama 4 & Maths Olympiad

Hello friends!

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 6

AI & Voice technology for improving education? New podcast episode! 👇🏻 open.spotify.com/episode/3bBu...

Building Voice Tech for Education with Mauro Nicolao at Soapbox Labs

Fireside AI · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · May 4

I think today’s debates over copyright and training data are distracting from the bigger question for creatives of what happens in the long term as AI generated content eats into their market.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ministers reconsider changes to UK copyright law ahead of vote

Exclusive: Proposals to introduce opt-out system of copyright rules no longer preferred option amid criticism from creative industries

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 30

When to build an ML platform team? open.spotify.com/episode/29GK...

ML Platform teams with Prassanna Ravishankar from Papercup

Fireside AI · Episode

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks! This is for a company hiring though, not for me searching 🙏🏻 much as I’d love the civil service pension!!

Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 30

Thanks so much 🙏🏻 I wondered if recruiters is actually the way to go, good to know I’m not missing anything obvious wrt job boards!

Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 30

Feel I ought to know this… but does anyone know where software engineers in the UK (London & Cambridge specifically) look for jobs? Are there popular job boards?

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 28

You wouldn't steal a font... arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

“You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy campaign may have used pirated fonts

Digging into archived site points to use of questionable text styling.

arstechnica.com

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 25

The Ferris wheel on Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 📸

A close up of the Ferris wheel carriages

Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · Apr 24

With every interaction, ChatGPT has taken to informing me that it’s using British English spelling