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What could go wrong? Redmond researchers release a blabbering bot trained on Reddit chats
Microsoft researchers have built a chatbot from OpenAI’s text-generating model GPT-2, and trained it on millions of conversations scraped from... oh crap. Reddit.
In the news | Ars Technica
Microsoft’s Project Silica offers robust thousand-year storage
Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for…
Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich
Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out it’s hard to fit…
In the news | Movieweb
Superman: The Movie Gets Archived on Futuristic Glass Disc by Microsoft
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have partnered to preserve the iconic superhero movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a coaster. The idea, hopefully, is that this type of storage technology could help to preserve classic movies for…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich
Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, weâre now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out itâs hard…
In the news | CMS WiRE
Microsoft Ignite 2019: Not Your Grandfather’s Microsoft
If you thought Microsoft was simply a productivity company, think again. CEO Satya Nadella kicked off this year’s Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference in Orlando, Fla. with a big sky vision for the company: “How do we power every person and…
In the news | siliconANGLE
At Ignite, Microsoft convincingly addresses the multicloud imperative
Microsoft Corp. has fresh momentum in the cloud wars. For starters, Microsoft was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI contract. For another, the company has just announced a broad range of enhancements to…
In the news | GenomeWeb
Jax, Microsoft Team to Mine Medical Literature for Curating Clinical Knowledgebase
The Jackson Laboratory has turned to Microsoft artificial intelligence technology to curate its fast-growing Jax Clinical Knowledgebase (CKB) in hopes of delivering up-to-the-minute clinical insights for the treatment of cancer. The collaboration is also helping to inform research efforts. Specifically,…
In the news | PCMag
Azure Arc May Be the On-Prem Azure Answer for SMBs
At Microsoft Ignite 2019, Redmond announces Azure Arc, which lets SMBs not only run Azure on-premises in near-piecemeal fashion, but also lets them turn Azure's beefy management tools onto on-premises servers and Kubernetes workloads running anywhere.