以科技之力，守护地球家园：微软亚洲研究院助力实现可持续发展
编者按：2023年3月，联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会发布的一份报告[1]表明：“人类活动主要通过排放温室气体，已毋庸置疑引起了全球变暖。不利的气候影响已经比预期的更加深远和极端”。这些巨大的排放量来自全球各行各业，与整个人类的活动都密切相关，随着人类文明的发展，地球也正在遭受破坏。保护环境，建设和谐的生态家园，是人类共同的责任。 一直以来，微软在以数字技术创新，实现绿色低碳的可持续发展道路上不断...
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AI Anthology
Recent advances in AI have sparked both wonder and anxiety as we contemplate its transformative potential. AI holds enormous promise to enrich our lives, but this anticipation comes intertwined with apprehensions about the challenges and risks that might emerge. To…
LLM时代，探索式数据分析的升级之路有哪些新助攻？
作者：马平川、丁锐 在这个信息爆炸的时代，数据已经成为我们生活、工作中不可或缺的重要资源。大量的数据犹如一座座金矿，蕴藏着无尽的价值。然而，如果无法从数据中提取出知识和信息并加以有效利用，那么数据本身并不能驱动和引领技术应用取得成功。如何让数据发挥它最大的价值？是数据、知识与智能（DKI）组持续探索的方向，为了实现这一目标，研究员们在探索式数据分析（Exploratory Data Analysi...
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Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity" by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson
Exploring MSR Asia’s contributions to ICLR 2023: From robust machine learning to responsible AI
ICLR is recognized as one of the most influential international academic conferences in machine learning. At this year’s conference, Microsoft Research Asia presented its latest research contributions in machine learning robustness and responsible AI, among other fields. Check out the…
By Zewei Xu, Senior Applied Scientist and Will Dubyak, Principal Program Manager In March we announced Dynamics 365 Copilot (opens in new tab) and the Copilot in Power Platform (opens in new tab) which has generated curiosity about how we’ve…
3D telemedicine brings better care to underserved and rural communities, even across continents
Providing healthcare in remote or rural areas is challenging, particularly specialized medicine and surgical procedures. Patients may need to travel long distances just to get to medical facilities and to communicate with caregivers. They may not arrive in time to…
隐藏在Microsoft Designer背后的新科技，让人人都是设计师
编者按：在视觉图像设计中，用户的需求与最终的设计成品往往是“想象很美好，现实很骨感”。这通常是因为用户在与设计师沟通时，双方理解不一致，导致最终设计结果不尽如人意。但是，如果能够“自给自足”，借助人工智能技术为每个人赋予设计能力，是否会更容易让自己脑海中的画面变为现实？智能化设计工具 Microsoft Designer 就是一个能辅助用户成为设计师的好帮手。 2022年10月，微软在 Ignit...
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Governing AI: A Blueprint for the Future
“Don’t ask what computers can do, ask what they should do.” That is the title of the chapter on AI and ethics in a book I coauthored in 2019. At the time, we wrote that “this may be one of…