Data optimist. Data, infrastructures, governance, platforms, AI, the commons, etc. Director of Research & Policy @ OpenMined.
London, England
Joined January 2015
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📣 Introducing the eight initiatives now supported by the Data Empowerment Fund. It's a great group, empowering people with data to tackle the climate crisis, advocate for fair work, govern artificial intelligence and address other critical challenges: dataempowerment.fund/#initia…
'Relationships are complicated! An analysis of relationships between datasets on the Web' research.google/blog/relatio…
I'm trying to keep track of the different tools springing up to enable web users to control use of their data/content. Dark Visitors is a new one to me: darkvisitors.com/
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We think that all memory is stored in the brain. But our study published today in @NatureComms shows that all cells—even kidney cells—can count, detect patterns, store memories, and do so similarly to brain cells. My first (co)corresponding author paper!🧵nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
I find the disconnect between discourses like 'data can't/shouldn't be financially valued' vs the ongoing practice of pricing and charging for data access quite confusing.
eg circular discussions on NHS data vs CPRD charging, right now, £360k pa, for access to primary care data
I like the way @OpenFutureEU's new report describes the different policy issues + discourses around 'digital public infrastructure' openfuture.eu/blog/mapping-t…
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Organiser Charles Anderson takes to the stage. Says he’s only had 2 hours sleep in 48hrs since they announced this event. Been bombarded with calls from all over the world. He also claims to have invented ‘energy recovery systems’ in cars. And the show Britain’s Got Talent.
"the Model Openness Framework (MOF), a three-tiered ranked classification system that rates machine learning models based on their completeness and openness, following open science principles" arxiv.org/abs/2403.13784
"Silicon Valley.. [has] retreated into.. dealings that 'blur the lines between doing business and doing philanthropy'" ft.com/content/cf186d7a-ee0f…
"the Smart Data Donation Service (SDDS), led by the University of York, will be aimed at empowering citizens to take control of their own data and share it safely with researchers.. initially focusing on 90k donations from video game users" ukauthority.com/articles/sma…
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The Collective Intelligence Project has been doing incredible work lately with bringing democratic practices to AI, incl. w/ OpenAI and Anthropic. I've joined them to take this work one step further: bringing democracy into companies themselves.
Read here: ...
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While this is obviously a great idea that will have immediate positive impact, we have decided to postpone implementation until we know for sure if it can scale.
'From Databases to Dataspaces: A New Abstraction for Information Management'... from 2005! (via @agentGav) sigmodrecord.org/publication…
"Instead of alignment with the preferences of a human user, developer, or humanity-writ-large, AI systems should be aligned with normative standards appropriate to their social roles, such as the role of a general-purpose assistant" arxiv.org/abs/2408.16984
not really sure why the copyright + training data issue is so much more contentious here in the UK than it seems to be in the EU, where the AI Act basically points to existing (*opt out*) text and data mining provisions in the copyright directive ft.com/content/26bc3de1-af90…
"Fair Source Software (FSS):
- is publicly available to read.
- allows use, modification, and redistribution with minimal restrictions to protect the producer’s business model.
- undergoes delayed Open Source publication." fair.io/about/
"the go-to model for many ['commercial open source'] businesses has come to be known as 'open core', where the core functionality of the software is open source, but a significant portion of the utility is locked behind a paywall" techcrunch.com/2024/10/20/jo…