In the news | Geekwire
Microsoft AI tool reveals swath of devastation from Maui wildfire
In Maui’s historic town of Lahaina, more than half of the community’s 2,810 buildings have been damaged by a wildfire that this week obliterated the landscape. More than 1,200 of the impacted structures were essentially destroyed. That’s according to research by…
Microsoft at KDD 2023: Advancing health at the speed of AI
| Hoifung Poon
This content was given as a keynote at the Workshop of Applied Data Science for Healthcare and covered during a tutorial at the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (opens in new tab), a premier forum…
谢幸：做经得起时间检验的研究，打造负责任的人工智能
作者：络绎科学 最近几年，人工智能（AI）技术发展迅猛，特别是在视觉、语音识别、阅读理解、机器翻译等单个任务上逐渐达到、甚至超过人类的水平。 2022年11月底，OpenAI 发布 ChatGPT，再次掀起了人们对大语言模型关注的热潮。一直以来，大语言模型被视为通往通用人工智能的必然发展阶段，这让人们再次看到通用人工智能的曙光。 技术发展的同时，我们也必须看到其所带来问题，正如微软总裁布拉德·史密...
In the news | JAMA
Large Language Models Answer Medical Questions Accurately, but Can’t Match Clinicians’ Knowledge
This article is about how these models could be used in medical scenarios, current limitations and future research areas, and the how the medical community should agree on how to use this technology.
Collaborators: Data-driven decision-making with Jina Suh and Shamsi Iqbal
| Gretchen Huizinga, Jina Suh, and Shamsi Iqbal
Researcher Jina Suh and manager Shamsi Iqbal are longtime collaborators. Learn how their history of working together and their unique perspectives are informing their development of tools to support decision-making for organizational leaders.
In the news | LinkedIn Story
Fighting wildfire with AI
As we think about the growing wildfire season around the world and its impact on people and the planet, it’s easy to feel powerless. But AI can help.
A/B Interactions: A Call to Relax
If you’re a regular reader of the Experimentation Platform blog, you know that we’re always warning our customers to be vigilant when running A/B tests. We warn them about the pitfalls of even tiny SRMs (sample ratio mismatches), small bits…
Research Focus: Week of July 31, 2023
In this edition: A new anonymous token protocol balances fraud detection and privacy; survival instinct in offline RL; Nimble offers rollback protection for confidential cloud services; improved machine learning force fields for molecular dynamics.
Awards | Bernoulli Society
Lester Mackey awarded Ethel Newbold Prize 2023
Lester Mackey (Stanford University and Microsoft Research New England) has become the fifth Ethel Newbold Prize Winner. The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents…