Andrew Cullen

@adrcullen

Secure, Ethical AI consultant & coach (www.EthiCan.com.au), board member of Music Technology Australia, CTO of MetaGen. Former Snr Research Fellow at University of Melbourne. Into bikes, weightlifting, and, weirdly, Iranian brickwork.

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Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· May 11

Our science Minister saying there's nowhere better to work. Yet the AEA Ignite Scheme - focused upon turning research into real world products - just got axed. After soliciting applications. 500 applications, 40 hours per application (over multiple staff) - 10 years of wasted effort.

Science minister Tim Ayres saying you wouldn't want to be anywhere else if you want to work in science and engineering and maths.

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· Apr 1

Just in case anyone felt like things might possibly get better soon. Also Australia's last scheduled arrival of gasoline is apparently April 20th. www.ft.com/content/19f1...

FT Report that UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from the Middle east this week

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· Mar 23

Who needs satire any more? no01.substack.com/p/march-19-2...

The logic, insofar as there is any, goes like this: the war has crashed the global oil market, so the administration is unsanctioning the people they're bombing because the bombing is working too well at the thing they didn't want it to do.

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· Feb 2

-shocked pikachu face- Funding rates through the floor. ARC programs turning into boondoggles (the changes to ARC grants, DP and DECRA results out after the next years are due). Much hyped programs being shuttered almost instantly (ASCA). Is there anything that feel like its trending the right way?

Guardian Australia - Stem sector under unsustainable strain warns peak body. 47% of professionals considering leaving current roles due to workforce instability and low grant funding success rates.

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· Dec 2

Probably would be a good idea to actually fund research and commercialisation in AI then....? Australia does punch above its weight in terms of AI research efficiency, but fundamentally without money the country will continue to experience a brain drain. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Screenshot from the guardian quoting the ALP stating that Australia is a top producer of academic AI research.

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· Nov 25

Good to see politicians going so quickly from responding to groundswell to trying to put forth action. But long term this isn't about CSIRO, it should be about how science is treated (and funded) in Australia.

Pocock, Greens, Liberals putting forward an emergency motion regarding CSIRO funding cuts.

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· Oct 15

This seems to be...interestingly timed, given the lawsuit regarding Adam Raine. From a security perspective, I'm curious as to what exactly OpenAI has done that leaves them confident about amping up how much "like a friend" LLMs will be, given our evolving understanding of the human risk landscape.

Sam Altman announcing that they've moved to make ChatGPT more human like.

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· Aug 18

To anyone learning how to present data - study this graph from Gotham Polling (gothampolling.com/study-nyc-ma...). Study it in great detail. And then do absolutely everything differently.

A poorly coloured pie chart of polling for the NYC Mayoral race.

Andrew Cullen@adrcullen· May 14

To anybody thinking that AI is benign, apolitical, and intelligent, it's important to remember that it's just a system made by people, and can reflect a whole range of biases. And we're not talking about a bias towards Jar Jar Binks voice being intrinsically funny.