Previously I worked at the University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science, and was a Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, while also lecturing at Hertford College to students taking Oxford's new computer science and philosophy course. I am an Honorary Professor at UCL.
My research interests include natural language and generation, machine reasoning, open ended learning, and meta-learning. I was involved in, and on multiple occasions was the lead of, various projects such as the production of differentiable neural computers, data structures, and program interpreters; teaching artificial agents to play the 80s game NetHack; and examining whether neural networks could reliably solve logical or mathematical problems. My life's goal is to get computers to do the thinking as much as possible, so I can focus on the fun stuff.
PROOF: https://imgur.com/a/Iy7rkIA
I will be answering your questions here Today (in 10 minutes from this post) on Wednesday, December 7th, 10:00am -12:00pm EST.
After that, you can meet me at a live AMA session on Thursday, December 8th, 12pm EST. Send your questions and I will answer them live. Here you can register for the live event.
Edit: Thank you everyone for your fascinating, funny, and thought-provoking questions. I'm afraid that after two hours of relentlessly typing away, I must end this AMA here in order to take over parenting duties as agreed upon with my better half. Time permitting, in the next few days, I will try to come back and answer the outstanding questions, and any follow-on questions/comments that were posted in response to my answers. I hope this has been as enjoyable and informative for all of you as it has been for me, and thanks for indulging me in doing this :)
Furthermore, I will continue answering questions on the live zoom AMA on 8th Dec and after that on Cohere’s Discord AMA channel.