Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content
| Akshay Nambi and Tanuja Ganu
Teachers are the backbone of any educational system. They are not just educators; they are indispensable navigators, mentors, and leaders. Teachers around the world face many challenges, which vary from country to country or even within a city or town.…
Data Formulator: A concept-driven, AI-powered approach to data visualization
| Chenglong Wang, Bongshin Lee, John Thompson, Steven Drucker, and Jianfeng Gao
Visualization is vital for understanding complex data, but existing tools require “tidy data,” adding extra steps. Learn how Data Formulator transforms concepts into visuals, promoting collaboration between analysts and AI agents.
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Progress with our AI commitments: an update ahead of the UK AI Safety Summit
Today, Microsoft is sharing an update on its AI safety policies and practices ahead of the UK AI Safety Summit. The summit is part of an important and dynamic global conversation about how we can all help secure the beneficial…
Project Silica: Sustainable cloud archival storage in glass
| Richard Black, Burcu Canakci, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Sergey Legtchenko, Ant Rowstron, and Ioan Stefanovici
This research paper was presented at the 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (opens in new tab) (SOSP 2023), the premier forum for the theory and practice of computer systems software. For millennia, data has woven itself into every…
跨学科合作构建具有社会责任的人工智能
作者：谢幸 在过去的一年里，人工智能（AI）一次又一次地呈现出“超预期”的发展。在惊喜和振奋之余，我们也需要重新审视一个重要的问题——技术本身是否价值观中立？毕竟大型语言模型（LLMs）的智能是基于人类产生的语料，而人类语料中所潜藏的立场和价值观，会不可避免地成为影响机器做出推理与判断的因素之一。 在现实中，一些已经公开的人工智能大模型曾表现出一些有悖于主流价值观，或者令人感到不满意的行为，比如对...
Research Focus: Week of October 23, 2023
In this issue: Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model; Can vine copulas explain complex relationships of weather variables; New system accelerates the adaptive training process; Structural inequalities and relational labor in the influencer industry.
In the news | Nature
An AI revolution is brewing in medicine. What will it look like?
Jordan Perchik started his radiology residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham near the peak of what he calls the field’s “AI scare”. It was 2018, just two years after computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton had proclaimed that people should…
Abstracts: 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.
Awards | Cornflakes: Zero-Copy Serialization for Microsecond-Scale Networking artifact award
SOSP 2023 Distinguished Artifact Award