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Chatbot provides new route for Scottish patients to access Covid-19 information and support
People across Scotland who need help and information about coronavirus can now get help using an online chatbot from NHS 24, the organisation that provides Scotland’s 111 service.
Earlier this year, a novel coronavirus rendered online teaching a norm. With “classroom” experiences poor, effective interactions between teachers and students difficult to maintain, and teaching quality easily affected by network conditions, online teaching has created many difficulties for teachers…
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BSA Member COVID-19 Resources
Communities around the world are taking essential steps to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. BSA members have risen to this global challenge in a number of ways, including: providing free access to their services; advice and help regarding remote…
Provably efficient reinforcement learning with Dr. Akshay Krishnamurthy
MSR’s New York City lab is home to some of the best reinforcement learning research on the planet but if you ask any of the researchers, they’ll tell you they’re very interested in getting it out of the lab and…
Attention！在研究中，你是否踩过这些工程的“坑”？
作者：殷秋丰 编者按：或许你曾对着前人留下的天坑怀疑人生，或许你曾疏于注释导致自己也忘了当初为什么这么写，或许你抱有“代码 work 就行了”的侥幸心理……那些年我们做研究时踩到的雷，其实许多都是忽视工程细节后留下的隐患。今天，微软亚洲研究院创新工程组首席开发经理殷秋丰将与你聊聊做计算机研究项目时容易被忽视的工程问题，祝大家少挖坑也少掉坑。 计算机领域的研究有其鲜明的特点。我们不能说工程就是研究，...
Podcast: What ‘bhasha’ do you want to talk in? With Kalika Bali and Dr. Monojit Choudhury
Many of us who speak multiple languages switch seamlessly between them in conversations and even mix multiple languages in one sentence. For us humans, this is something we do naturally, but it’s a nightmare for computing systems to understand mixed…
When the COVID-19 pandemic was in its early stages, several agencies published infection and mortality data for different geographical regions in the public domain. This data appeared in web pages, CSV files, JSON files, and more. There was plenty of…
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Microsoft researchers say NLP bias studies must consider role of social hierarchies like racism
As the recently released GPT-3 and several recent studies demonstrate, racial bias, as well as bias based on gender, occupation, and religion, can be found in popular NLP language models. But a team of AI researchers wants the NLP bias…