Ask Me Anything with Ed Grefenstette, Head of Machine Learning at Cohere

Ed previously 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. He is now an Honorary Professor at UCL.

His research interests include natural language and generation, machine reasoning, open-ended learning, and meta-learning. He 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.

His life's goal is to get computers to do the thinking as much as possible, so he can focus on the fun stuff.