In the news | GeekWire
80 years after D-Day, Microsoft uses AI to enhance archival materials and keep memories alive
Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to help preserve the history of D-Day, 80 years after allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, and turned the tide of World War II.
Introducing Aurora: The first large-scale foundation model of the atmosphere
| Wessel Bruinsma, Megan Stanley, Ana Lucic, Richard Turner, and Paris Perdikaris
Aurora, a new AI foundation model from Microsoft Research, can transform our ability to predict and mitigate extreme weather events and the effects of climate change by enabling faster and more accurate weather forecasts than ever before.
科学研究的突破正在以前所未有的速度影响着现实世界。人工智能的最新研究进展正在重塑着人们的生活、工作和思维方式。在即将开播的最新一期的 Microsoft Research Forum 中，来自微软研究院不同实验室的研究员们将一同深入探讨包容、公平的人工智能的重要性；分享 AutoGen 和 MatterGen 的最新进展；探索人工智能在行业发展和科学领域中的新应用等。 北京时间6月5日，第三期 M...
What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu
| Johannes Gehrke and Weishung Liu
Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in Silicon Valley—she landed in tech.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Accelerating AI opportunity and climate solutions in Africa
Microsoft firmly believes that AI has tremendous potential to accelerate solutions to the various challenges societies are facing, including the climate crisis.
In the news | IEEE Spectrum
1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands
“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier—and nearly as accurate. Large language models, the AI systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT, are getting better and better—but they’re also getting bigger and bigger, demanding more energy and computational power. For LLMs that…
Research Focus: Week of May 27, 2024
How can generative AI tools represent less common identities and narratives; Can LLMs help players participate in game narratives; Using LLMs to improve geospatial demographic data; A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization; and more.
The Crossroads of Innovation and Privacy: Private Synthetic Data for Generative AI
| Gbola Afonja, Robert Sim, Zinan Lin, Huseyin Atahan Inan, and Sergey Yekhanin
Synthetic data could potentially help address some privacy concerns with AI model development and training, but it comes with limitations. Researchers at Microsoft are exploring techniques for producing more realistic data with strong privacy protections.
程鹏：“研究员+工程师”模式的探路者，推动人工智能与系统协同进化
编者按：尽管人工智能大模型在处理任务的广度上已经取得了突破，但它在特定领域的深度和精确性上仍存在局限。为了应对这一挑战，微软亚洲研究院提出了特定领域智能（Artificial Specialized Intelligence, ASI）的概念，并沿着人工智能与系统协同进化（AI-System Co-evolution）的研究路线，利用人工智能技术自动化设计和构建底层系统与硬件，为用户提供定制化的服...