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Juan Lavista Ferres, chief data scientist at Microsoft’s AI For Good Lab, tells Tech Life how artificial intelligence can help predict wildfires.

With the rise of generative AI models like ChatGPT, there come questions of how this technology can be used in industry, especially in healthcare. At this year’s DIA conference, Dr. Hoifung Poon, general manager of…

Following the Lahaina wildfire’s impact, Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab has leveraged advanced AI solutions to help assess the damage incurred by the disaster. Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Scientist and Lab Director at…

In Maui’s historic town of Lahaina, more than half of the community’s 2,810 buildings have been damaged by a wildfire that this week obliterated the landscape. More than 1,200 of the impacted structures were essentially…

This article is about how these models could be used in medical scenarios, current limitations and future research areas, and the how the medical community should agree on how to use this technology.

As we think about the growing wildfire season around the world and its impact on people and the planet, it’s easy to feel powerless. But AI can help.

Lester Mackey (Stanford University and Microsoft Research New England) has become the fifth Ethel Newbold Prize Winner. The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a…

This week in Nairobi, Microsoft joined with our partner organizations to officially launch the Africa AI Innovation Council. The event brought together a visionary group of African leaders from the government, private, and nonprofit sectors…

Yael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won impressive awards and changed the way people think about the internet. But as a kid, she wasn’t exactly a model student.

In a TIME cover story, Kalika Bali, linguist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke to Billy Perrigo about the importance of designing AI technology without language barriers. Learn about our innovative work on ethical…