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M A Osborne

@maosbot.bsky.social

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Parent, spouse, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae on Fridays, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hi! To introduce myself to new folk, I got Long Covid in 2020 and went through the worst 18 months of my life before entering remission—I don't know why. I mask. I believe in AI's potential, and resent what Big Tech has done to it. I also post pictures from walks with our dog.

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 1d

Copenhagen, 2024

a lovely coastal scene with a red and white striped lifeguard station on a sandy beach. The foreground shows marram grass in the dunes, whilst offshore wind turbines are visible on the horizon. The dramatic cloudy sky adds atmosphere to the composition.

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Fazl Barez @fbarez.bsky.social · 1d

🚨New AI Safety Course
@aims_oxford
!

I’m thrilled to launch a new called AI Safety & Alignment (AISAA) course on the foundations & frontier research of making advanced AI systems safe and aligned at
@UniofOxford

what to expect 👇
robots.ox.ac.uk/~fazl/aisaa/

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! I wasn’t sure about your post and appreciate the explicit confirmation!

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t love the description of increasing autism diagnoses as an “epidemic”

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 3d

As evidence for your theory, staff in shops often initiate conversations with me in English (unlike other customers), and the only reason i can imagine for why they do so is my mask

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 4d

I am happy to defer to your judgement here—in addition to my visible privileges (gender, height), I’ve only lived in Aarhus, and only for a few months, which is unlikely to be representative

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 4d

I am pretty sure that @brebis.bsky.social also lives in Denmark. My own 2p: no one else masks here, but I haven’t gotten any grief over my mask, either

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 4d

Apes smart enough to figure out the various disciplines of complex science explaining how deeply they are screwing up the thin eggshell of biosphere that is their only plausible home, yet too dumb to do anything about it

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 13d

I just got my Covid booster, and you should, too!

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 15d

Multilayer pony
My little perceptron

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 17d

Covid is still out there, and masks still work

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 18d

21575 (crazy!)

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 19d

5,290 papers will be published at NeurIPS this year. If you could still get the proceedings in a book, it would be like 50,000 pages long. That’s 14.5 papers a day to read each and every day until the next NeurIPS

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 25d

Danes keep assuming I am foreign because I am wearing a mask and TBF they’re correct

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 26d

This one always gets me going

Solo Banton - Music Addict (Jahtari 12")

YouTube video by Jahtari

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 26d

I love this track!

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 27d

Errr i feel a bit seen by this one

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you!

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 29d

Counterpoint: if you are not pregnant, please also get a Covid vaccine

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 29d

If you are pregnant, please get a Covid vaccine

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 29d

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 29d

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Sep 5

I hadn’t heard of this one. thanks for the tip off!

M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Sep 5

The first song from the first album of the first dancehall DJ—first and best

Natty Sat Upon The Rock

YouTube video by Yellowman - Topic

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think it is possible to be very sceptical and resistant to the integration of LLM technologies into every aspect of education and scholarship… while also recognizing that the tools *do* have uses. I think thoughtful proponents could work harder to make those cases to e.g other humanists 1/n

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Sep 5

New single from Stand High Patrol is hot

STAND HIGH PATROL - Underground Dwellers

YouTube video by STAND HIGH PATROL

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M A Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · Sep 4

More than a dozen cyclists waiting at the lights ahead of me—cycling is quite big in Denmark!

This is a lovely street scene showing a group of cyclists waiting at a traffic light in what appears to be a Scandinavian or Northern European city. The image captures about 12 people on bicycles lined up on a dedicated cycle lane, with the photographer also on a bike based on the handlebar visible in the foreground.
The urban setting features modern brick buildings, including one with “PWC” signage, wide streets with clear cycling infrastructure, and overhead tram or trolley lines. The cyclists are dressed casually in everyday clothing - jeans, jumpers, and casual wear - which is typical of cities where cycling is a common mode of transport for daily commutes and errands.

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