Nigel Collier

Have you ever had a model you expected to be a winner turn out not to be the best once you tested it on your own data? That’s one of the reasons we built QuickCompare. Today our Cambridge spinout, Trismik, is launching QuickCompare to help AI teams compare LLMs on their own tasks and data before committing time and budget to deployment, fine-tuning, or migration. Built for teams asking: * Which model is best for our workflow? * Which model is most reliable? * Which model is worth deeper investment? We’re live on Product Hunt today: producthunt.com/products/qui… We’d love your support and feedback. #LLM #AI #ProductHunt #Startups

If humans can learn geography from books, why do we say LLMs don’t understand the world? This essay explores why LLMs master linguistic boundaries but falter on the physical ones we learn through action. #LLM #GenerativeAI #WorldModels tinyurl.com/2kk92u5p

Are Doubt and Uncertainty the Same Thing? LLMs show uncertainty but cannot yet experience doubt, a richer metacognitive process. Because models lack self-awareness of their own ignorance, they can appear cautious while still hallucinating. See nhcollier.ai/

I’ve published a new piece called Beyond Alignment, a look at what AI could become if we designed it to understand, not just to comply. 👇 nhcollier.ai/reflections/bey…

After 10 years on my old site, I’ve officially moved to a new domain: nhcollier.ai. Hope to see you there.

🚀 We're hiring an Applied Scientist! Join a Cambridge AI spinout launching Apr/May '25. PhD in NLP/ML + 2-3 yrs industry exp needed. Work on product data, algorithms, & research papers. UK/Europe-based. Shape AGI’s future! Email CV: [email protected] (subject "Trism 2025").

Here's the link to our paper 'On Reality and the Limits of Language Data' arxiv.org/abs/2208.11981 with @EhsanShareghi and @hardy_qr #machinelearning #AI #CambridgeUniversity #MonashUniversity #deeplearning #NLProc

Delighted to announce our paper 'On Reality and the Limits of Language Data' in collaboration with @EhsanShareghi and @hardy_qr at . We've spent the last 9 months reading and thinking about the limitations of pre-trained language m…lnkd.in/d6RSeVXN lnkd.in/dT-t3n22

FW: Earth Species Project is hiring Senior AI Research Scientist jobs.lever.co/earthspecies/2…

Happy to share the titles of 5 @CambridgeLTL papers (tinyurl.com/n8c7e8j5) in #EMNLP2021 and 1 in CoNLL. Congratulations to all our authors including @hardy_qr, @ebugliarello, @PontiEdoardo, @sivareddyg, @annalkorhonen, @EhsanShareghi, @mengzaiqiao, @_simonB, @licwu,@QianchuL

New NLP postdoc position in text mining/QA @CambridgeLTL - please circulate to anyone interested: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/27187/ Hopefully a great opportunity both for fundamental advances in NLP and real-world impact in digital outbreak detection. Deadline 21st May to apply.

I'm happy to announce a really exciting NLP postdoc position opening up on the EPI-AI project - please circulate to anyone interested jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/27187/ @CambridgeLTL Deadline 6th December.

If you are interested in joining us @CambridgeLTL now is the time to start thinking about your PhD application and making contact with me, @annalkorhonen or @licwu. Funding deadlines are 14th Oct for US Gates and 7th Jan. See postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk… and sites.google.com/site/nhcoll…

Here's the press announcements from UKRI+SSHRC on our new project EPI-AI with David Buckeridge and Nick King from McGill funded by the Canada-UK AI Initiative: tinyurl.com/yx546un9 and tinyurl.com/sfyhlvt. Now recruiting: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24790/ #CambridgeLTL

Announcing a postdoctoral position in NLP at Cambridge on the new EPI-AI project: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24790/ Deadline is 16th March.

Thanks to Irena Spasic and colleagues @CardiffUniDII for hosting my seminar yesterday. I really enjoyed the day there! Great to have feedback on integrating knowledge graphs and textual corpora (arxiv.org/pdf/1808.07724.pdf). @CambridgeLTL

Thanks to @WHO for including @CambridgeLTL in the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS) meeting. Great to have a chance to present our work on geo-tagging, fact verification and mapping text to knowledge graph. Looking forwards to many interesting discussions tomorrow.

Call for PhD students: we have an EPSRC studentship to work on NLP and Information Extraction with a focus on integrating natural language texts and large-scale knowledge graphs jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/19620/ @CambridgeLTL See conditions: tinyurl.com/ydbum5zo Contact:[email protected]

And here's the original announcement:

PhD funding just announced by The Alan Turing Institute @turinginst at tinyurl.com/yaf5goz3. Happy to hear from highly motivated students interested in NLP and ML - (pls also check requirements at tinyurl.com/ydh5tfyb). @CambridgeLTL