WHO needs to improve its communication on this. When they say “no evidence” they mean something like “no definitive proof, yet”. But the average person is going to read it as “there’s no immunity to coronavirus”, which is likely false and not a good summation of the evidence.

Happy to be part of this discussion about how AI moves past its “magic trick” phase and starts to change the way we do business: economist.com/technology-qua…

Great effort starting up to support the homeless in London by Lola Henninger and a few other good folks: gofund.me/d73e1270

Data Science and the Art of Producing Entertainment at Netflix share.social.kpmg/rp4am

According to our 2021 #CEOoutlook Pulse Survey, driving the digitalisation of operations is a key focus for CEOs. Read Paul Henninger's blog as he discusses what businesses need to consider when assessing their own digital transformation journey: ow.ly/EHqP50EtWMc

Principal Component Analysis is one of the most fundamental techniques in data science. Despite its simplicity, it has several equivalent forms that you might not have seen. In this thread, we'll explore what PCA is really doing! 🧵 👇🏽

🙏🏻 — just admitting not-knowing can be the beginning of great things. it is certainly the only way learning can happen!

Some random musings on how the whole "AI scaling" debate. It is clear that neural nets can model any predictive distribution p(x_future|x_past) given enough parameters and data, since they are universal approximators;

Lisa Dwan - Asking art not to offend is akin to asking to live in the world without sun, rain and wind for fear of their droughts, gusts and storms. Actress and writer Lisa Dwan on Salman Rushdie, friendship and art thecurrency.news/articles/93535…

Neural networks often pack many unrelated concepts into a single neuron – a puzzling phenomenon known as 'polysemanticity' which makes interpretability much more challenging. In our latest work, we build toy models where the origins of polysemanticity can be fully understood.

thinking clearly about risk may seem trivial but it's essential for good decisionmaking and good outcomes in situations of not-knowing. read more about how to do that: vaughntan.org/how-to-think-m… 🙏 James Cham Dimitri Glazkov Paul Henninger giulio quaggiotto, and kai fong chng for comments.

Really fascinating framing of content moderation as a problem that has much broader application I think. Patterns and outcomes are the place to start….

Great talking with Roland Alston about data and ESG.

An engineer one lamented to me: “we’ll never fix things, because a PM won’t ever prioritize tech debt over a feature. My response? “You’re right.” 🧵

💡 What on earth does the #metaverse have to do with future workplaces? This morning we have been exploring #WorkplaceInnovation through the lens of the metaverse with incredible speakers: The Skills Network, KPMG, @AccessAlerts, DXC Technology, & Academy. #MakingTheMetaverse

It's incredible to work with technologists like Laura Foster, Sian Wilson, Paul Henninger, James Dunn, Ashley Ramrachia, & Sofia Tirini, who all have unique takes on #MakingTheMetaverse in future workplaces. We discussed everything from accessibility to use cases in learning.

many recent chats w/ people thinking of moving to marseille led me to think about why Things That Grow Very Fast tend not to grow for very long, and how hype strangles good reasons for growth (this generalises beyond marseille and cities) vaughntan.org/slowing-down

it's not my name 🤷‍♀️

Rethinking #AI for the future! @PHenninger, a Partner and the UK Head of Connected #Tech and Global Head of #Digital Lighthouse at @KPMGUK , shares his AI fears and explores the future possibilities of AI beyond traditional use cases. 🎧: bedigitaluk.com/podcast #TTLP

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