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Improving AI Systems with Human Feedback and no Heartburn
| Tobias Schnabel, Paul Bennett, and Susan Dumais
Humans play an indispensable role in many modern AI-enabled services – not just as consumers of the service, but as the actual intelligence behind the artificial intelligence. From news portals to e-commerce websites, it is people’s ratings, clicks, and other…
New institute explores the future of Cortana
| Roy Zimmermann
Today marks the establishment of the Cortana Intelligence Institute – a new, co-funded collaboration between Microsoft Research, Cortana Research and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, to work on next-generation capabilities for Microsoft’s digital assistant Cortana. At Microsoft, we are constantly…
Neural Program Synthesis and the Quest to Democratize Programming with Dr. Rishabh Singh
Episode 10, January 31, 2018 – We can program computers to do almost anything. But what about programming computers to… program computers? That’s a task that Dr. Rishabh Singh, and the team in the Cognition group at Microsoft Research, are…
Learn Artificial Intelligence Skills via Residency at Microsoft
| Christopher Bishop
Harness Machine Learning to Improve People’s Lives At Microsoft, we are committed to leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to benefit people and greater society. Advances in AI can be applied to address some of the world’s biggest challenges,…
Life at the Intersection of AI and Society with Dr. Ece Kamar
Episode 9, January 24, 2018 – As the reality of artificial intelligence continues to capture our imagination, and critical AI systems enter our world at a rapid pace, Dr. Ece Kamar, a senior researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction…
Awards | Geospacial World Forum
Ranveer Chandra earns 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award for FarmBeats
Ranveer Chandra received a 2018 Geospatial World Excellence Award at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, for the FarmBeats AI & IoT Agriculture project. The forum is the world’s largest annual gathering of the geospatial community – people who build and use technologies…
In the news | The Register
Microsoft offloads networking to FPGA-powered NICs
Microsoft has switched on new network interface cards packing field-programmable gate arrays and announced that doing so has let it hit 30Gbps of throughput for servers in Azure.
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft partners with Adaptive Biotech on AI-driven blood test to diagnose dozens of diseases at once
The human immune system is incredibly complex and incredibly smart. Your immune system knows when you’re getting sick, sometimes days, months or even years before the problem is diagnosed.
In the news | Fast Company
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies are using AI to decode the immune system
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies hope to pair advances in AI and machine learning with recent breakthroughs in biotechnology to map out the immune system and tap into the body’s impressive diagnostic system.