Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science (Cambridge)

Research interests

My research focuses on Machine Learning and Computer Security.

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Could machine learning models cause their own collapse?

AI systems have shown remarkable advances in recent years, but an article published today in Nature highlights a potential stumbling block on the horizon for them. The paper’s authors, who include Christ Church’s Dr Ilia Shumailov and Professor Yarin Gal, set out how the ‘indiscriminate’ training of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT and Gemini on model-generated data ‘causes irreversible defects in the resulting models’ – giving rise to a phenomenon the researchers term ‘model collapse’. 

Dr Ilia Shumailov and Professor Yarin Gal