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Microsoft details how it improved Bing’s autosuggest recommendations with AI
Earlier in the year, Microsoft detailed the ways Bing has benefited from AI at Scale, an initiative to apply large-scale AI and supercomputing to language processing across Microsoft’s apps, services, and managed products. AI at Scale chiefly bolstered the search…
In the news | Bing Blogs
Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing
Bing users around the globe perform hundreds of millions of search queries every day. These queries are diverse in many ways, from the intent the users are seeking to fulfill, to the languages and regions where these queries are issued.…
In the news | Microsoft AI Blog for Business & Tech
Microsoft to engage with customers to further develop Turing natural language models
As part of the companywide AI at Scale initiative, Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference that it plans to begin working with select customers to further develop its Turing natural language representation (NLR) models. AI at Scale, which was announced…
In the news | PCMag
Microsoft Is Trapping Bugs in Robotic Smart Traps to Help Prevent the Next Pandemic
As COVID-19 drags on, a big question is how best to prevent major spread of the next pandemic? At Microsoft, they’re looking to the Azure-based Premonition Cloud, a global sensor network and data pool that analyzes bug activity for signs…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system
Five years after launching an experiment to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft says it’s ramping up Project Premonition to create an honest-to-goodness biothreat protection network.
In the news | MSPowerUser Blog
Microsoft Premonition will help governments detect biological threats in the environment
Microsoft Premonition was a Microsoft Research project with a goal of scalable monitoring of the environment to detect disease threats early, using robotics and genomics. Microsoft Premonition is a collection of technologies – hardware, software and services that enable biome…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft adds partners to pathogen-tracking Premonition project
During Ignite 2020, Microsoft took the wraps off its efforts to detect pathogens before they cause widespread outbreaks. Applying learnings from Premonition, a five-year epidemiological project spearheaded by Microsoft Healthcare, the company hopes to employ a combination of robotics, cloud…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft launches Premonition, its hardware and software platform for detecting biological threats
At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced that Premonition, a robotics and sensor platform for monitoring and sampling disease carriers like mosquitos and a cloud-based software stack for analyzing samples, will soon be in private preview.
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Predicting epidemics like the weather: How Microsoft Premonition can help in the global fight against disease outbreaks
“What’s the weather like outside?” It’s a simple question, that we don’t think twice about. Our smart assistants, phones or a simple internet search can answer it. But it actually takes a global sensor network of weather stations, advanced data…