Biography:Michael Osborne (academic)

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Short description: Machine learning professor and entrepreneur

Michael Osborne is an Australian academic and scientist. He is a professor of machine learning at University of Oxford in the Machine Learning Research Group,[1] a sub-group of 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. [5] He is an advocate for masking to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID disease. [6]

Education

Osborne has a BEng in Mechanical Engineering and a BSc in both Pure Mathematics and Physics from the University of Western Australia.[7]

He has a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Oxford.[8]

Career and Research

Osborne has contributed to over 100 publications[9] and his work has received over 22,000 citations with an h-index of 44 according to Google Scholar.[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 has acted as principal or co-investigator for £10.6M of research funding.[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 United Kingdom 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]

Honours, advisory roles, and fellowship

Osborne is a Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford.[20]

He is also an Official Fellow of Exeter College,[21] a Fellow of the ELLIS society,[22] and a Faculty Member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.[23]

He joined the Oxford Martin School as Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment in 2015.[24]

He is a Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems.[25]

References

  1. "home - Machine Learning Research Group". https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~parg/. 
  2. "Michael Osborne". https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/michael-osborne/. 
  3. Foundry, Mind. "AI For High-Stakes Applications. Responsible, By Design." (in en-gb). https://www.mindfoundry.ai/. 
  4. "Oxford machine learning spinout unlocks big data insights | University of Oxford" (in en). 2016-03-02. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-03-02-oxford-machine-learning-spinout-unlocks-big-data-insights. 
  5. @maosbot. "When I got #LongCovid in March 2020" (in en). https://twitter.com/maosbot/status/1450465063056420874.  Missing or empty |date= (help)
  6. @maosbot. "They say masks don't work, but" (in en). https://twitter.com/maosbot/status/1730876772835581953.  Missing or empty |date= (help)
  7. "About · Michael A Osborne". https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb/. 
  8. "Michael Osborne Academic CV". https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb/public/pdf/MAOsborne.pdf. 
  9. "Michael A Osborne ResearchGate publications". https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Michael-A-Osborne-2222729429. 
  10. "Michael A Osborne". https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=iTNcAakAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  11. "Professor Michael Osborne: Meeting the needs of society with AI" (in en). https://oxford.shorthandstories.com/ai-michael-osborne/. 
  12. "Michael Osborne" (in en-US). https://aiforgood.itu.int/speaker/michael-osborne/. 
  13. "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?". https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=yjqqB5AAAAAJ&citation_for_view=yjqqB5AAAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C. 
  14. "Carl Benedikt Frey". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yjqqB5AAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  15. "Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne on how AI benefits lower-skilled workers". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/09/18/carl-benedikt-frey-and-michael-osborne-on-how-ai-benefits-lower-skilled-workers. 
  16. Dunn, Will (2023-01-28). "Carl Benedikt Frey: in an automated future, trade unions will be more important than ever" (in en-US). https://www.newstatesman.com/business/the-business-interview/2023/01/carl-benedikt-frey-robots-future-unions-important. 
  17. "25 January 2023 - Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) - Oral evidence". https://committees.parliament.uk/event/17014/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/. 
  18. Correspondent, Rhys Blakely, Science (2023-11-08). "Rogue AI 'could kill everyone'" (in en). The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rogue-ai-could-kill-everyone-3bsfttpmv. 
  19. "Rogue AI 'could kill everyone,' scientists warn" (in en-US). 2023-01-26. https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/rogue-ai-could-kill-everyone-scientists-warn/. 
  20. "About · Michael A Osborne". https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb/. 
  21. "Professor Michael Osborne" (in en-GB). https://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-michael-osborne/. 
  22. "Michael Osborne" (in en). https://www.ellis.ox.ac.uk/people/michael-osborne. 
  23. "Michael Osborne". https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/michael-osborne/. 
  24. "Professor Michael Osborne" (in en). https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/michael-osborne/. 
  25. "Academics". https://aims.robots.ox.ac.uk/academics/.