Michael Natusch

Science, ML and data nerd. Recovering frequentist, AI tinkerer and father of failure. Trying to build self-learning systems. Director @ Public Investment Fund.

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Insightful discussion of benefits and risks of LLMs by @GaryMarcus and @Melissahei - surprising but very appropriate how prominent “people” are in the word cloud of their conversation #aiuk

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

@GaryMarcus This article and pieces like it are a good example of why human stupidity continues to be a bigger problem than artificial intelligence

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

@annabellekwok Great camera action!

[Pedro Domingos @pmddomingos]

The race in AI should be toward models with fewer and fewer parameters for a given performance, not the opposite.

[TradeTalks @TradeTalks]

.@prudentialplc Chief Science Officer @cumulyst joins @JillMalandrino on @Nasdaq #TradeTalks virtually from @sgfintechfest to discuss AI ethics in insurtech. #SFF

https://t.co/kPsihAYbIq

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Um, no. We are definitely not "about to hit" a singularity.

Our real challenge, near term, is not smart AI (which doesn't yet exist) but mindless AI, which already exists, is widespread, and is often problematic.

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Location: Heaven

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Thrilled to hear that following a creative break of some 2,400 years, Euripides has started publishing again

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

When you visit a bookshop and can’t help feeling the books on display are strangely relevant (but I bought a book on how to draw unicorns instead)

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

@SuB8u Look after yourself please Subbu

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Happy to be following in my heroes' footsteps by becoming Chief Science Officer

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

@annabellekwok The most violent beekeepers I’ve ever witnessed

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

So glad to have had my vaccine earlier this week, despite brief high fever and shaking as side effects. Wear a mask, get vaccinated. https://t.co/ANdxgvoFlX

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Had a happy holiday season playing with @iSH_app who managed to get an x86 Alpine Linux emulator into the iOS App Store, enabling command line access without ssh. What joy!!!

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

must-read new study from @Google confirms all central claims of Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018):

- machine learning often generalizes poorly
- extrapolation beyond training data is key
- urgent need for better ways of adding in domain expertise https://t.co/gBygavHh7c

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Bangkok sunrise ☀️

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Great mix of parkour, hacking and social engineering by the brilliant @Usamalama_ How we hacked the London Billboards (Piccadilly Circus) https://t.co/RyPjpXUL2K via @YouTube

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

I just backed iMicro Q2: An 800x Fingertip Microscope for Any Smartphone on @Kickstarter https://t.co/nj8nVXu1Hc

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Heathrow T5 looks really weird. All shops closed. Massive queues for everything. More akin to the Soviet Union than the usual consumer paradise.

[Michael Natusch @cumulyst]

Last meal in London with family