Hybrid Reward Architecture and the Fall of Ms. Pac-Man with Dr. Harm van Seijen
If you’ve ever watched King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters, you know what a big deal it is to beat a video arcade game that was designed not to lose. Most humans can’t even come close. Enter Harm van Seijen,…
‘Contextual bandit’ breakthrough enables deeper personalization
| Miro Dudík
News portals that simultaneously personalize every part of the landing page for every visitor and mobile health apps that adaptively tweak every part of an exercise regimen to maximize the benefit of every user are becoming plausible due to an…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a technology to help computer process or understand human languages. It includes: Syntactic-semantic Analysis: Conduct word segmentation, the tagging of parts of speech, named entity recognition and linking, syntactic analysis, semantic role recognition, and polysemy…
The amount of today’s rich media content is unprecedented. Every second, people are creating and sharing enormous amounts of information, and particularly content that includes complex image and text information. Among these contents, the combination of text and images has…
Will machines one day be as creative as humans?
| Sebastian Nowozin
Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs). Today at NIPS 2017, researchers…
New Microsoft Research Podcast invites you to log on, tune in and geek out
| Gretchen Huizinga
Microsoft Research Podcast Subscribe and listen on iTunes, android or email I’ve spent the better part of the last decade investigating the impact of digital media and technology on culture from an academic perspective. I have conducted my own qualitative…
AI and Our Future With Machines with Dr. Eric Horvitz
| Eric Horvitz
Episode 2, December 4, 2017 - When it comes to artificial intelligence, Dr. Eric Horvitz is as passionate as he is accomplished. His contributions to the field, and service on the boards of nearly every technical academy and association in…
Snippets from the Revolution – An Interview with Dr. Jaime Teevan
| Jaime Teevan
Episode 1, November 28, 2017 - Dr. Jaime Teevan has a lot to say about productivity in a fragmented culture, and some solutions that seem promising, if somewhat counterintuitive. Dr. Teevan is a Microsoft researcher, University of Washington Affiliate Professor,…
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Beyond Tomorrow – A vision study by Brüel & Kjær
The Beyond Tomorrow Vision Study is published and a symposium has been assembled with industry experts, including Ivan Tashev, discussing the report findings and their perspectives on the future of product development.