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Machine learning professor and entrepreneur

Michael Osborne (born 1982) 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.

In 2016 he co-founded Mind Foundry, an artificial intelligence company, along with fellow professor Stephen Roberts.

Osborne suffered from long COVID syndrome. He is an advocate for masking to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID disease.

Education

He has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and a BSc in both Pure Mathematics and Physics from the University of Western Australia. He has a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Oxford.

Career

Osborne has contributed to over 100 publications, and his work has received over 24,000 citations with an h-index of 46 according to Google Scholar. and has acted as principal or co-investigator for £10.6M of research funding.

His career has focused in particular on Bayesian approaches to AI and machine learning, named after the famous British statistician Thomas Bayes. Osborne's work has contributed to Probabilistic numerics, with Osborne co-authoring the first textbook on the subject.

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?". The paper has received over 13,000 citations and extensive media coverage.

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". His testimony received significant coverage around his warnings of the threat of "rogue AI".

Honors

He is also an Official Fellow of Exeter College, a Fellow of the ELLIS society, and a Faculty Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He joined the Oxford Martin School as Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment in 2015. He is a Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.

References

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  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.
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  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}}: |last= has generic name (help)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.
  23. "Professor Michael Osborne". Oxford Martin School. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  24. "Academics". aims.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.

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