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Neil Ward-Dutton

@neilwd.bsky.social
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Perpetual learner: VP AI, Automation & Analytics @IDC Europe. FRSA. #automation #ai #analytics + Occasional nonsense.

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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stunning!
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Man, the product-market fit journey of the frontier model providers is proving prettttty wild
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It’s not even a technology
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Hmm not sure either Ben Vitamin B12
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Dunno about you, but this looks like hell on earth to me. Can you imagine what it would be like to have these as aspirations?
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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 02/06/2026
It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Pin badge “scientist” in rainbow motif Two bird pins. A series if birds sitting on a branch. Each bird is the colour of a stripe on the rainbow flag. Pronoun pins with rainbow motif:
She her 
He him 
She they 
He they 
They them An array of pride themed science and sci fi pins.
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Why is it that every enterprise tech vendor I talk to now seems to overnight have an army of Forward-Deployed Engineers? Could it be that they want to see if they can get some of that "Palantir magic"?
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
There is one short segment of that video where I swear he's weeing up a wall (slightly out of shot)
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band The Men They Probably Could Hang
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Two highly competitive prize sheep nevertheless share a hidden lust Bleated Rivalry
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Confidently Paranoid @niblick-iii.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Guys guys guys, I found the archive of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (it's not an achievement, they've not hidden them) - you can watch every single one since they started televising them in the 60s: www.rigb.org/christmas-le... I love watching them every year, now I can see them all!
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Watch the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES archive
Watch all the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES back to 1966, when the lectures were first televised.
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Malicious Font Attack: great name for a punk band
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What would happen if @ledbydonkeys.org were to project these messages onto the side of Parliament buildings? I wonder how many people are aware of the extent of this abuse
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Probably should’ve posted the Ai statement separately - not sure how it displays with the rest. It’s not so different from what I originally posted, but prefer people get the final version. Have at it & hope it’s useful to you in your classes. All on my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We often hear of big anniversaries of Big Albums by Big Artists - but how in the jiminy blazes is it 30 years since the release of Aimee Mann's I'm With Stupid? In the genre of wry American singer-songwriter melodic indie, it is an absolute end-to-end banger btw.
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yes yes yes. This is a lovely film.
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
O. M. and, may I also add, G. I am currently preparing the largest of sighs I can possibly muster
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script:

[Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.] 

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STOCK CUBE:
Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf.
My colleague from the spice rack.

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BROCCOLI:
Hi Bay Leaf

BAY LEAF:
Yuh yuh hi

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CARROTS:
You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf?

BAY LEAF:
Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage.

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CARROTS:
Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then?

BAY LEAF:
Eaten! Haha

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BAY LEAF:
Not allowed mate.

I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*...

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BAY LEAF:
Just here for the flavour hit.
Special forces, y’know.
That’s why there’s just one of me.

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BAY LEAF:
Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf…

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BAY LEAF:
You might wanna stand back actually.
This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy...

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[Silent pause]

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CARROTS:
Are you doing something

BAY LEAF:
Sure am mate.

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BAY LEAF:
Suuuuure am.

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BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]:
You need training to perceive it.

CARROTS:
OK
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Ah, Germany. Nothing like being in a taxi blasting up the autobahn to Frankfurt airport at 170km/h while the driver is simultaneously trying to fix the charging cable for his mobile phone
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Outstanding work
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Oof, Ed Does Not Hold Back
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If I didn't get an invitation to attend the WEF at Davos, am I even an #AI thought leader? I'm having a crisis of confidence now...
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Shill, baby, shill
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Chapeau. No notes
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Trying to get a bit more detailed with my loaf decoration
Fresh bread loaf on the kitchen countertop
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
It’s probably time for me to reverify, so here is a festive #proofofcat
Kipper the cat on a sofa surrounded by fairy lights
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Through a good friend I've come to understand the amazing work that National Prison Radio (in the UK) does - and how it does this on an absolute SHOESTRING. This week they have a matched-donation funding campaign running. Can you spare anything? donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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National Prison Radio: The Sound of Change
Donate to our project this December and support 80,000 people beyond bars, through the power of radio. Your support will …
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I’m not at #awsreinvent this year. Tbh I can’t decide if I’m sad or happy. FOMO but it’s been a crazy 3 months for travel and my 33rd trip to Vegas can wait until 2025
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Right - some work content. Just writing up a brief note on the significance of this #AI foundation model development: www.iais.fraunhofer.de/en/press/pre...
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Multilingual and open source: OpenGPT-X research project releases large language model - Fraunhofer IAIS
The large language model of the OpenGPT-X research project is now available for download on Hugging Face: "Teuken-7B" has been trained from scratch in all 24 official languages of the European Union (...
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Is the new DOGE going to be like one of those 70s rock supergroups containing at least 5 oversexed guys trying to steal the limelight from each other by playing double-necked guitars?
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Julia Allum @juliaallum.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'm not playing Black Friday I'm afraid, but if you'd still like a print, do have a little browse of my shop 👇 juliaallum.co.uk/shop/
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A sudden inexplicable urge to listen to Big Audio Dynamite. Where do we all stand? Niche 1980s footnote or lovely example of the possibilities of the cultural mashup? (or perhaps both)
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hey, if you're just finding me on here, I work at IT industry research firm IDC - so expect to see a chunk of work-related stuff (news, analysis and takes on biz-tech trends relating to #AI, #automation etc). However I am also a human with an interest in baking, cats, music and general nonsense
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I know British culture aficionados will say I’m late (I am) but… Christmas cake is in the oven! Forgot to buy brandy so used Cointreau instead. Early signs v promising
A wooden spoon bearing evidence of Christmas cake mixture
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I had quite a few stupid hats to choose from
The author, wearing a tiny birthday crown made by his young daughter
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Sitting in a Heathrow airport cafe, reading about #AI / AGI “stone soup”… there a number of threads coming together here on agents, LLMs, “reasoning”, and fundamentally what these systems need to do to be valuable for different use cases
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One of the very best things about the UK is that we can be whimsical & daft even when/where you don't expect it. Exhibit A: names of Scotland's fleet of road-gritting vehicles. Lovely
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Today it’s Rotterdam, speaking and facilitating at a Collibra event - all things data governance for #AI
A misty and cloudy view across water to Rotterdam city
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Let’s see if Bluesky people are Sunday morning fresh baked bread people
A loaf of home baked sourdough bread, fresh from the oven. The crust is audibly cracking as it cools
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Happy weekend to all those who weekend. I will be “running” my local parkrun, watching my daughter in a musical theatre show, and starting to think about thinking about Christmas
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Wow, I did not see that coming... chapeau to The Onion!
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
After hearing news first thing, was going to post this morning something like "I give the Archbishop of Canterbury until the end of the day" but I forgot. Darn it
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
In foggy Munich to talk about the past, present and future of #AI in business for a CIO conference. Super interesting to here what the 100+ CIOs here are thinking about (& doing about) all the sexy new #GenAI stuff. (Spoiler: still lots of poking & prodding)
Photo of lit-up glass office towers in Munich reaching into the sky, shrouded in night-time fog
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Dunno how on earth it happened, but I've ended up with a day completely free of calls and meetings. Might do a bit of writing
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I used to use the Other Place to share worky thoughts on #ai etc. So far here I’ve been mostly lurking. If I start sharing worky stuff here am I going to start sounding like a massive tool?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
That face. I know it well.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
The single best thing about this website is I don’t know who the CEO is
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
this is how your email finds me
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
The Unbearable Lightness of Boeing
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Neil Ward-Dutton @neilwd.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
I’ve been on here for a while but here’s #proofofcat
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