Bill Mitchell

OBE for services to Computing and to Artificial Intelligence Education (2020), and have PhD in pure mathematics from University of Manchester (1987)

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

I've been awarded an OBE for services to Computing and to Artificial Intelligence Education! These things happen because of who you work with as much as anything you do yourself. Huge debt of gratitude to everyone I've worked with, thank you! https://t.co/TloZklMda3

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

@CVersailles we will never again visit Versailles after yesterday. The overcrowding was so bad that sometimes the crush made us feel we could not breath, nor could we move for long periods while we were stuck in rooms with no air or light. Sort it out.

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Just published blog on @LinkedIn 'Agentic AI is mostly useless, but might still take your job anyway'. It really does mean 'your' job by the way, not some random other person you've never met!

https://t.co/Aw4R7Xig41

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

New LinkedIn blog: Deregulating AI to enhance US dominance https://t.co/OOVHUcfpdo

Disclaimer: the guineapig does not in any way represent any prominent political figure from the US, at all

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Made me laugh from the @guardian, especially the final punch line:

https://t.co/vAjpW37ufR

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Nerds' overview of #DeepSeekR1 here
https://t.co/XKDS65YiAs

It's generated by Google NotebookLM.

Based on @deepseek_ai paper from GitHub here https://t.co/kdfECs108O

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

New article: An AI Opportunities Action Plan to achieve responsible AI adoption https://t.co/7dTBcMUBGP via @LinkedIn

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Latest article: 'Generative AI productivity puzzle' https://t.co/QN83xGW4EA

Really wanted the bunny to be on a bike with square wheels. Ho hum. You'll just have to imagine it.

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

New article from me: Professionalisation of AI Assurance important says @SciTechgovuk
https://t.co/dJJqPD4cOU via @LinkedIn

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Excellent read:

[The Productivity Institute @TPIProductivity]

What does the budget mean for productivity? Some of the critical stepping stones are being laid but it will all depend on execution, says @bart_ark in his policy commentary. https://t.co/h13OuH7LYh

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

@ersatzben Sounds great. Isn't that what's called 'wine' at 13%?

[Wendy Hall @DameWendyDBE]

But how do we report incorrect overviews and what happens to the overviews after they are created? Do you use them in future model training? I worry so much about all the garbage that genAI is polluting our information ecosystem with @sundarpichai @demishassabis @WittedNote

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

You may be interested in Microsoft #Copilot's assessment of Palantir's evidence to the House of Commons Defence Sub-Committee’s inquiry into developing artificial intelligence capacity and expertise in UK defence.

You can look at it here https://t.co/eYsEo5gfgy

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Wonder if @peterkyle asked them if folding £1B Horizon funding into R&D budget is a good idea?

[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology @SciTechgovuk]

Final stops for @peterkyle in San Francisco included meeting leading AI companies @Anthropic and @Nvidia.

And at @BerkeleyLab he saw how they help early-stage companies develop biofuels and bioproducts into commercial products, which will shape UK policy on engineering biology.

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

New article: Will #AI analysis of evidence submitted to the UK Strategic Defence Review add value? https://t.co/2ecHotuDVT

Premise: AI will need prior knowledge of lobbying to assess impartiality and validity of evidence.

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

'An industrial strategy that galvanises responsible AI innovation?' drawing on work of @BCS, @CMAgovUK and @OECD https://t.co/ybpGWIchH3 via @LinkedIn

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

So only 6 handshakes distance between any two people on Earth. Well I'm now only two away from a Nobel Laureate thanks to @adamsonjulia. Nice to think @BCS were ahead of the curve giving Sir Demis Hassabis CBE the Lovelace Medal https://t.co/BBYVBA7tXL

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Just wow!

[nature @Nature]

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has awarded one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

Stay tuned for more

#NobelPrize

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Short article about @SciTechgovuk launch of Regulatory Innovation Office today. Chance to create a virtuous cycle of higher standards driven by professional practice https://t.co/Le8ZrrBQM8

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

Short LinkedIn article on why we need public policy focus on embedding #AI engineering practice that's being developed by organisations like @bcs (and lots of others) into the mainstream economy
https://t.co/I078dY5YhF

[Bill Mitchell @batteredbluebox]

https://t.co/oKdJQ5Eg47

Google Gemini outputs “I apologize deeply for the offensive example I provided” after answering simple questions on essentialism, see above link for LinkedIn article.