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]
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
editHe 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
editOsborne 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
editHe 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]
References
edit- ^ a b @maosbot (October 19, 2021). "When I got #LongCovid in March 2020" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "home - Machine Learning Research Group". www.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ Foundry, Mind. "AI For High-Stakes Applications. Responsible, By Design". www.mindfoundry.ai. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ "Oxford machine learning spinout unlocks big data insights | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
- ^ @maosbot (December 2, 2023). "They say masks don't work, but" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "About · Michael A Osborne". www.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ "Michael Osborne Academic CV" (PDF).
- ^ "Michael A Osborne ResearchGate publications".
- ^ "Michael A Osborne". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ "Michael Osborne". AI for Good. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Professor Michael Osborne: Meeting the needs of society with AI". oxford.shorthandstories.com. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
- ^ Hennig, P.; Osborne, M. A.; Kersting, H. P. (2022). Probabilistic Numerics (PDF). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107163447.
- ^ "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Carl Benedikt Frey". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne on how AI benefits lower-skilled workers". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "25 January 2023 - Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) - Oral evidence".
- ^ 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) - ^ "Rogue AI 'could kill everyone,' scientists warn". 2023-01-26. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Professor Michael Osborne". Exeter College. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Michael Osborne". www.ellis.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Michael Osborne". eng.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "Professor Michael Osborne". Oxford Martin School. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ "Academics". aims.robots.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-06.