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Maike Osborne

@maosbot.bsky.social

Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, mother of two and happily married, Australian, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Maike Osborne@maosbot.bsky.social · 4d ago

Very nervous about my appearance today, meeting dozens of students either for the first time or the first since transitioning. I only got three hours’ sleep, and so don’t look great, but I think I just look like a tired woman, which is an exciting new thing for me!

Close-up selfie of Maike, a woman with shoulder-length brown hair in a centre parting and blue-grey eyes, giving a small closed-mouth smile. She wears a navy velvet blazer over a shirt with a cream, black and pink fan print, and a fine silver necklace with a small yellow pendant. Plain pale grey background.
Maike Osborne@maosbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Took the kids to the busy marina today, while wearing a dress, and got loads of stares, as usual, but it's easier when I'm with the kids, because then I don't care too much what other people think. Photo credit: 7YO

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair stands in a bright white room, one hand on her hip, looking at the camera with a slight smile. She wears a long-sleeved royal-blue dress with a small pink print and a gathered waist, with a navy top underneath, a fine gold necklace and a watch with a brown strap. Behind her is a large abstract painting in teal, yellow and black, with a white panelled door to one side.
Maike Osborne@maosbot.bsky.social · 4w ago

IMHO the most dangerous capability AIs may develop when it comes to pandemics is the capacity for wide-scale social engineering e.g. convincing sufficient people that a virus is mild, is not airborne, masks don't work etc

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.

A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England." The post text reads: "Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet. His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets. In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet. He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets. I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now." The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · last mo.

kids today

Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication

From the printing press to social media, innovations in communication technology have repeatedly reshaped how ideas spread through human culture. Chatbots powered by generative artificial intelligence...

arxiv.org

Dave@dave.9000ish.uk · last mo.

Both! The slides for a number of the students were heavy on AI, but i raised an eyebrow when the one student said "there's one issue, and it's the honest one" didn't feel like he was reading from a script, and it wasn't on the slide

Maike Osborne@maosbot.bsky.social · last mo.

I may have recovered from Long Covid in my body, and I may have recovered in my mind, but I don't think I will ever recover in my soul, so deep was the darkness that my illness revealed in humanity

Maike Osborne@maosbot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm increasingly using Claude to vibecode bug fixes for other people's apps I must use: terrible code solving the problem of terrible code, everything in sight engulfed by an avalanche of sloppy spaghetti

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since we're talking COVID: Masks work, ivermectin does not. Vaccines massively protect you and help against long-term stuff, but you need to keep up with boosters. You need to keep masking; COVID isn't over because WE DIDN'T STOP THE TRANSMISSIONS in 2020-2021. Also many are still at high risk

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 2mo ago

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. (1/4)