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Advancing transparency: Updates on responsible AI research 

January 10, 2024 | Mihaela Vorvoreanu and Kathy Walker
Editor’s note: All papers referenced here represent collaborations throughout Microsoft and across academia and industry that include authors who contribute to Aether, the Microsoft internal advisory body for AI ethics and effects in engineering and research. A surge of generative AI models in the past…

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    Advancing transparency: Updates on responsible AI research 

    January 10, 2024 | Mihaela Vorvoreanu and Kathy Walker

    Editor’s note: All papers referenced here represent collaborations throughout Microsoft and across academia and industry that include authors who contribute to Aether, the Microsoft internal advisory body for AI ethics and effects in engineering and research. A surge of generative AI models in the past…

  2. Research Focus - week of January 8, 2024

    Research Focus: Week of January 8, 2024 

    January 10, 2024

    Mixture-of-linear-experts for long-term time series forecasting; Weakly-supervised streaming multilingual speech model with truly zero-shot capability; KBFormer: Diffusion model for structured entity completion; Identifying risks of AI-mediated data access:

  3. Research Focus 31

    Research Focus: Week of December 18, 2023 

    December 20, 2023

    In this issue of Research Focus: Optimized exit-augmented models for scalable efficient inference; NeurIPS LLM Efficiency Challenge; LLM-empowered automated data exploration; Boosting cloud efficiency with data-driven decision-making and optimization.

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    Steering at the Frontier: Extending the Power of Prompting 

    December 12, 2023 | Eric Horvitz, Harsha Nori, and Yin Tat Lee

    We’re seeing exciting capabilities of frontier foundation models, including intriguing powers of abstraction, generalization, and composition across numerous areas of knowledge and expertise. Even seasoned AI researchers have been impressed with the ability to steer the models with straightforward, zero-shot prompts. Beyond basic, out-of-the-box prompting, we’ve been…

  5. Satya Nadella on stage at Microsoft Ignite 2023 announcing Phi-2.

    Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models 

    December 12, 2023 | Mojan Javaheripi and SƩbastien Bubeck

    Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.

  6. Research Focus Edition 30 December 6, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of December 4, 2023 

    December 6, 2023

    Research Focus: Using LLMs in a Rust-based formal verification framework; Rethinking network measurements with user feedback; 3D telemedicine using HoloportationTM communication technology could enhance overseas surgical visits.

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