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The New Performance Equation in the Age of AI
Amid economic uncertainty and the transition to flexible work, leaders are under pressure to increase productivity in flexible work and do more with less. At the same time, next-generation AI is changing the game for how organizations gain a competitive advantage. In this…
作者：罗翀 编者按：国际学习表征会议 ICLR（International Conference on Learning Representations），被公认为当前最具影响力的机器学习国际学术会议之一。在今年的 ICLR 2023 大会上，微软亚洲研究院发表了在机器学习鲁棒性、负责任的人工智能等领域的最新研究成果。其中，微软亚洲研究院与韩国科学技术院（KAIST）在双方学术合作框架下的科研合作...
Unifying learning from preferences and demonstration via a ranking game for imitation learning
| Harshit Sikchi, Akanksha Saran, Wonjoon Goo, and Scott Niekum
For many people, opening door handles or moving a pen between their fingers is a movement that happens multiple times a day, often without much thought. For a robot, however, these movements aren’t always so easy. In reinforcement learning, robots…
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The world needs cybersecurity experts – Microsoft expands skilling effort with a focus on women
Today, Microsoft is expanding our Cybersecurity Skills Initiative to Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, and Spain, and delivering grants to nonprofits to help skill people for the cybersecurity workforce. With this expansion, we are now working in 28 countries around the world, partnering with…
Automatic post-deployment management of cloud applications
| Nagarajan Natarajan, Lei Zhao, Rodrigo Fonseca, Tatiana Racheva, and Yogesh Bansal
In the first two blog posts in this series, we presented our vision for Cloud Intelligence/AIOps (AIOps) research, and scenarios where innovations in AI technologies can help build and operate complex cloud platforms and services effectively and efficiently at scale.…
Microsoft at NSDI 2023: A commitment to advancing networking and distributed systems
| Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft has made significant contributions to the prestigious USENIX NSDI'23 (opens in new tab) conference, which brings together experts in computer networks and distributed systems. A silver sponsor (opens in new tab) for the conference, Microsoft is a leader in…
Cryptography in the Cryostat
Michael Freedman At a disarmament conference of 1932 Einstein described our technological vs. social maturity as a razor blade in the hand of a three-year-old. Ninety years has led to little gains in our social maturity and vast expansions of…
对话Peter Lee：大模型在医疗健康领域应用的机遇与挑战
编者按：今年3月，OpenAI 推出了大语言人工智能模型 GPT-4，其在推理、解决问题和语言等方面的能力都有了显著提高，使得发展长达数十年的人工智能进入了一个新阶段。微软全球资深副总裁、微软研究院负责人 Peter Lee 是微软内部最早使用 GPT-4 进行评估和实验的成员之一。近期在微软研究院最新的 AI 前沿系列播客节目中，Peter Lee 与微软研究院副总裁、微软杰出首席科学家 Ash...
Hunting speculative information leaks with Revizor
| Boris Köpf and Oleksii Oleksenko
Spectre and Meltdown are two security vulnerabilities that affect the vast majority of CPUs in use today. CPUs, or central processing units, act as the brains of a computer, directing the functions of its other components. By targeting a feature…