Microsoft Research Podcast

Will machines ever be intelligent?  

March 23, 2026 | Doug Burger, Subutai Ahmad, and Nicolo Fusi
Are machines truly intelligent? AI researchers Subutai Ahmad and Nicolò Fusi join Doug Burger to compare transformer-based AI with the human brain, exploring continual learning, efficiency, and whether today’s models are on a path toward human intelligence.

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  1. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: December 6, 2023 

    December 6, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Xing Xie

    "Abstracts”—your source for world-class research in brief—welcomes Senior Principal Research Manager Xing Xie to the podcast series to discuss his paper on evaluating general-purpose AI with psychometrics.

  2. MSR Podcast "What's your story" | Desney Tan

    What’s Your Story: Desney Tan 

    November 16, 2023 | Johannes Gehrke and Desney Tan

    From service in the Singapore Armed Forces to autonomous navigation with NASA & VR with Disney, Desney Tan’s life journey hasn’t been linear. Learn how Tan landed at Microsoft & about the purpose guiding his work in the podcast series “What’s Your Story”.

  3. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: October 23, 2023 

    October 23, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga, Andy Gordon, and Carina Negreanu

    Today on “Abstracts,” Partner Research Manager Andy Gordon & Senior Researcher Carina Negreanu explore new work introducing co-audit, a term for any tool-assisted experience that helps users of generative AI find and fix mistakes in AI output.

  4. MSR Podcast "What's your story" | Ranveer Chandra

    What’s Your Story: Ranveer Chandra 

    October 19, 2023 | Johannes Gehrke and Ranveer Chandra

    You may know tech, but how well do you know the people behind the advances? Ranveer Chandra talks about growing up in India, his work in systems and networking, and finding joy in your job in the first episode of the #MSRPodcast “What’s Your Story”.

  5. Microsoft Research Podcast - Abstracts hero with a microphone icon

    Abstracts: October 9, 2023 

    October 9, 2023 | Gretchen Huizinga and Sheng Zhang

    Researcher Dr. Sheng Zhang joins “Abstracts”—your source for cutting-edge research in brief—to discuss a recent paper on distilling large language models into smaller, more efficient ones capable of excelling in broad application classes.

  6. MSR Podcast - AI Frontiers with Hanna Wallach

    AI Frontiers: Measuring and mitigating harms with Hanna Wallach 

    September 28, 2023 | Hanna Wallach and Ashley Llorens

    Powerful large-scale AI models like GPT-4 are showing dramatic improvements in reasoning, problem-solving, and language capabilities. This marks a phase change for artificial intelligence—and a signal of accelerating progress to come.    In this Microsoft Research Podcast series, AI scientist and engineer Ashley Llorens hosts conversations…