AI Explainer: Foundation models and the next era of AI
| Ahmed Awadallah
The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a significant advance that builds on several years of rapid innovation in foundation models. GPT-4, which was trained on the Microsoft Azure AI supercomputer, has exhibited significantly improved abilities across many dimensions—from summarizing lengthy…
AI Frontiers: The Physics of AI with Sébastien Bubeck
| Sébastien Bubeck and Ashley Llorens
The first episode of the new Microsoft Research Podcast series, AI Frontiers, features Sébastien Bubeck, who leads the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. He and his collaborators conducted an extensive evaluation of GPT-4 while it was…
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GitHub Copilot X uses GPT-4 to polish off your code
Following on from its success among developers with Copilot, GitHub has announced the next stage, Copilot X, which is designed to expand beyond the realms of code auto-completion. ...
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GPT-4 and the Question of Intelligence
“The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed showing sparks of artificial general intelligence.” Those are the words of a team of researchers at Microsoft (Sébastien Bubeck, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan, Johannes…
In the news | Futurism
Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI
Fresh on the heels of GPT-4's public release, a team of Microsoft AI scientists published a research paper claiming the OpenAI language model — which powers Microsoft's now somewhat lobotomized Bing AI — shows "sparks" of human-level intelligence, or artificial…
In the news | Next Big Future
Artificial General Intelligence is Happening, Just a Question of How Much
Stephen McAleese, at Less Wrong, used scaling rules and formulas to try to predict the performance of GPT-4. He underpredicted the capabilities of GPT-4. However, he was not widely wrong. GPT-4 came out earlier than he expected and had better performance…
In the news | TechCrunch
GitHub’s Copilot-X goes beyond code completion
GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, the Microsoft-owned company is launching a code-centric…
打破拓扑结构的天花板，深入探究属性图上表示学习的研究蓝海
作者：社会计算组 图是一种通用的数据表示形式，来自不同领域的数据均可以表示为图，例如文本数据可以看成是一维图，图像可以看成是二维图，分子和蛋白质等实体也可以天然地的用图表示。通俗而言：万物皆可图。 而图表示学习（Graph Representation Learning，GRL）能够将图中的节点或者整个图转化为低维可计算的向量，为机器学习模型处理图这种高维复杂的数据形式提供了合适的计算接口。根据粗...
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The Climate Question Podcast: Can artificial intelligence help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change?
The effects of climate change on weather patterns around the world, including seasonal temperatures and rainfalls, are being felt keenly in agriculture – with shifting seasons and varying yields undermining years of habit-formed knowledge and process. Technology experts are helping…