
Rory Byrne
@ryrobyrne
🇮🇪 Neuroscience PhD student @Cambridge_Uni @stjohnscam. Startup founder. Military-age economic migrant.
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https://rory.bio 06-04-2020 16:40:57
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Big news: The government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, authored by Matt Clifford, has been published. The report reflects key recommendations from UK Day One's briefing AI Industrial Strategy: A Plan for “Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter”. This is a milestone moment for UK


1/ Just read through the Matt Clifford AI Action Plan now. Tl;dr: it's great but here are a few things that stood out to me as someone interested in AI for Science and sovereign compute and data capability. A thread: 🧵

Can we harness AI to accelerate UK scientific research? Yes we can, and the rewards could be enormous. But it won’t happen automatically. Today’s report from Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (coauthored by brilliant team +me) sets out a path, building on the AI Action Plan by Matt Clifford 🧵

Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By Dan Goodman thetransmitter.org/policy/science…




We (mostly Adam Marblestone and Mary with the help of the amazing scientists in our network) made a map of “fundamental development” gaps in science and technology. Go explore gap-map.org.



okay so I think it's high time I should publicise what me and typeofemale (cishetamad) have been up to! Two months ago, the British state decided to try to take away our ability to live dignified lives. This deeply shocked me and left me scrambling for what to do x.com/mayaofspring/s…