Microsoft Research Blog

Artificial intelligence

  1. Teaching AI to make decisions and communicate 

    March 23, 2017

    The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ may have been coined way back in the 1950s, but we have yet to see the types of machines described in books and films. In our daily lives and workplaces, we aspire to having machines that can help us get things…

  2. The next challenges for reinforcement learning 

    March 14, 2017

    Recent years have seen great progress for AI. In particular, artificial agents have learned to classify images and recognize speech at near-human level. However, for artificial agents to reach their full potential, they should not only observe, but also act and learn from the consequences…

  3. Creating curious machines: Building information-seeking agents 

    January 9, 2017

      Humans have an innate desire to know and understand. From a child learning to ride a bike to an adult gaining skills in an online course, we constantly absorb information from our environment through interaction. Motivated by this observation, we’ve developed a suite of…

  4. Memory & machines: A study in goal-oriented dialogue systems 

    December 20, 2016

    Talking to machines to get things done We have become familiar with talking to personal assistants such as SIRI or Cortana to get simple tasks accomplished. A popular feature is setting reminders: it is more efficient to say everything in one sentence instead of entering…