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Sriram Rajamani at Microsoft Research on AI and deep tech in India
Sriram K Rajamani, corporate vice president and managing director of Microsoft Research India Lab, reflects on how computer science and engineering research has evolved at the centre, in Bengaluru. In this conversation, Rajamani touches upon how AI and large language…
Research Focus: Week of June 24, 2024
In this issue: RENC makes 5G vRAN servers more energy efficient; CoExplorer uses AI to keep video meetings on track; Automatic bug detection in LLM-powered text-based games; MAIRA-2: Grounded radiology report generation.
构建负责任且大规模的生成式人工智能的七个启示
作者：Sally Beatty 2023年，生成式人工智能取得了巨大的进步，人们现在用文字就能创造出逼真的画面，借助微软的 Copilot 工具就可以总结错过的会议内容、撰写商业提案，或根据冰箱里的食材来推荐晚餐菜单。尽管微软在构建人工智能应用方面早已制定了一系列原则和流程，以尽最大可能减少意外伤害并为用户提供他们所期望的体验。但是，生成式人工智能产品的大规模应用，无疑也带来了前所未有的新挑战与新...
AI赋能天气：微软研究院发布首个大规模大气基础模型Aurora
编者按：气候变化日益加剧，高温、洪水、干旱，频率和强度不断增加的全球极端天气给整个人类社会都带来了难以估计的影响。这给现有的天气预测模型提出了更高的要求——这些模型要更准确地预测极端天气变化，为政府、企业和公众提供更可靠的信息，以便做出及时的准备和响应。为了应对这一挑战，微软研究院开发了首个大规模大气基础模型 Aurora，其超高的预测准确率、效率及计算速度，实现了目前最先进天气预测系统性能的显著...
Born in the research lab a decade ago, SWAN continues to accelerate networking in the Microsoft Cloud
| Victor Bahl
Software-driven wide area network (SWAN) enables central management and control of network infrastructure to improve reliability and efficiency. A Microsoft researcher describes its journey from a research idea to a foundational system for Microsoft Azure.
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Why AI sometimes gets it wrong — and big strides to address it
Around the time GPT-4 was making headlines for acing standardized tests, Microsoft researchers and collaborators were putting other AI models through a different type of test — one designed to make the models fabricate information.
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1 big thing: Cutting through the BS of AI
A new algorithm, along with a dose of humility, might help generative AI mitigate one of its persistent problems: confident but inaccurate answers. Why it matters: AI errors are especially risky if people overly rely on chatbots and other tools…
编者按：欢迎阅读“科研上新”栏目！“科研上新”汇聚了微软亚洲研究院最新的创新成果与科研动态。在这里，你可以快速浏览研究院的亮点资讯，保持对前沿领域的敏锐嗅觉，同时也能找到先进实用的开源工具。 本周，人工智能领域最具学术影响力的顶级会议之一，CVPR 大会在美国西雅图举办。因此，这期的“科研上新”为大家带来了四篇微软亚洲研究院入选 CVPR 2024 的精选论文解读，涉及领域涵盖新视角图像合成、3D...
Synergizing habits and goals with variational Bayes: A new framework for biological and artificial embodied agents
| Dongqi Han
The Bayesian behavior framework synergizes habits and goals through variational Bayesian methods, offering new insights on sensorimotor behavior and comprehension of actions.