Creating AI glass boxes – Open sourcing a library to enable intelligibility in machine learning
| Rich Caruana, Harsha Nori, Samuel Jenkins, Paul Koch, and Ester de Nicolas
When AI systems impact people’s lives, it is critically important that people understand their behavior. By understanding their behavior, data scientists can properly debug their models. If able to reason how models behave, designers can convey that information to end…
Awards | European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
Mary Czerwinski amongst the first EAI Fellows
Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager, was awarded the title of EAI (European Alliance for Innovation) Fellow. This is the inaugural year for this award and goes to individuals with extraordinary accomplishments in their respective technical areas, and with…
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Microsoft pushes ahead with conversation transcription virtual microphone arrays
Microsoft Research's 'Project Denmark' technology allows users to use the microphones in phones and laptops to create a virtual array that can handle conversation transcription and more.
Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
Episode 75, May 8, 2019- Dr. John Langford, a partner researcher in the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research New York City, is a reinforcement learning expert who is working, in his own words, to solve machine learning. Rafah Hosn,…
SpaceFusion: Structuring the unstructured latent space for conversational AI
| Xiang Gao
A palette makes it easy for painters to arrange and mix paints of different colors as they create art on the canvas before them. Having a similar tool that could allow AI to jointly learn from diverse data sources such…
Incentivizing information explorers (when they’d really rather exploit)
Everyone is familiar by now with recommendation systems such as on Netflix for movies, Amazon for products, Yelp for restaurants and TripAdvisor for travel. Indeed, quality recommendations are a crucial part of the value provided by these businesses. Recommendation systems…
In the spirit of "Nickel and Dimed", a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work.
Autonomous soaring – AI on the fly
| Andrey Kolobov
The past few years have seen tremendous progress in reinforcement learning (RL). From complex games to robotic object manipulation, RL has qualitatively advanced the state of the art. However, modern RL techniques require a lot for success: a largely deterministic…