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    New Meta-learning Techniques for Neural Program Induction 

    December 7, 2017 | Rishabh Singh

    Much research in AI lately focuses on extending the capabilities of deep learning architectures: moving beyond simple classification and pattern recognition into the realm of learning algorithmic tasks, such as inductive programming. Building on our past work in neural program synthesis for learning string transformations…

  2. Will machines one day be as creative as humans? 

    December 4, 2017 | Sebastian Nowozin

    Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs). Today at NIPS 2017, researchers from Microsoft Research and ETH…

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    AI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz 

    December 4, 2017 | Eric Horvitz

    Episode 2, December 4, 2017 - When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Horvitz is as passionate as he is accomplished. His contributions to the field, and service on the boards of nearly every technical academy and association in the country, have earned him…

  4. FigureQA

    FigureQA: an annotated figure dataset for visual reasoning 

    November 17, 2017

    Reasoning about figures Almost every scientific publication is accompanied by data visualizations in the form of graphs and charts. Figures are an intuitive aid for understanding the content of documents, so naturally, it is useful to leverage this visual information for machine reading comprehension. To enable…

  5. Microsoft extends AirSim to include autonomous car research 

    November 13, 2017 | Ashish Kapoor and Shital Shah

    Earlier this year, we open-sourced a research project called AirSim, a high-fidelity system for testing the safety of artificial intelligence systems. AirSim provides realistic environments, vehicle dynamics and sensing for research into how autonomous vehicles that use AI that can operate safely in the open…

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    2017 Beauty of Programming contest winners take big AI steps 

    October 24, 2017

    On August 15, the sixth annual Microsoft Beauty of Programming Challenge — a programming competition for college students in Asia — came to a close. This year's theme focused on artificial intelligence question and answer (Q&A) projects. The challenge asked each team to create a…

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    Nominations wanted: Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program 2018 

    September 5, 2017 | Sandy Blyth

    At Microsoft Research, we are on the lookout for exceptional students to apply for our two-year PhD fellowship program. Our fellowships are for students in computer science, electrical engineering and mathematics, as well as interdisciplinary studies intersecting with those domains such as computational biology, social…