In the news | Foundation Capital
The Promise of Multi-Agent AI
In this post, I share learnings from my conversation with Chi Wang, a principal researcher at Microsoft and the creator of AutoGen. Agents have been a cornerstone of human-computer interaction for decades, from the friendly Clippy of Microsoft Office fame…
In the news | Foundation Capital
The Promise of Multi-Agent AI
Agents have been a cornerstone of human-computer interaction for decades, from the friendly Clippy of Microsoft Office fame to auto-suggestions in Google Docs and NPCs in video games. While these early agents hinted at the potential for personalized, goal-oriented interactions,…
人工智能的迅猛发展，极大地改变了我们的工作和生活方式，带来了诸多便利，但与此同时，各种潜在风险也随之涌现，例如人工智能生成的内容可能会包含歧视性话语、虚假性信息、隐私泄露等。反尺度定律表明：随着 AI 模型规模的增加，可能带来的风险和问题也会相应增大。因此，人们在追求更强大的人工智能时，也必须让人工智能谨守造福人类的原则，并且在人工智能对人类社会造成不良影响之前就做好准备。这也正是微软亚洲研究院正...
Ideas: Designing AI for people with Abigail Sellen
| Gretchen Huizinga and Abigail Sellen
Social scientist and HCI expert Abigail Sellen explores the critical understanding needed to build human-centric AI through the lens of the new AICE initiative, a collective of interdisciplinary researchers studying AI impact on human cognition and the economy.
GigaPath: Whole-Slide Foundation Model for Digital Pathology
| Hoifung Poon and Naoto Usuyama
Digital pathology helps decode tumor microenvironments for precision immunotherapy. In joint work with Providence and UW, we’re sharing Prov-GigaPath, the first whole-slide pathology foundation model, for advancing clinical research.
In the news | Forbes
Microsoft Announces New Foundation Model For Digital Pathology, Diving Deeper Into Clinical Medicine
Microsoft is delving even deeper into clinical medicine, evident by the announcement today highlighting the company’s development of a foundation model for pathology in partnership with Providence and the University of Washington. Specifically, the company has leveraged its significant work…
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft, Providence and UW make use of generative AI for digital cancer diagnosis
Researchers at Microsoft, Providence Health System and the University of Washington say they’ve developed a new artificial intelligence model for diagnosing cancer, based on an analysis of more than a billion images of tissue samples from more than 30,000 patients.…
周礼栋：打开创新组织的管理锦囊
本文转载自《商学院》，作者石丹。 “创造一个空间，让每个人的每一份天赋都能得以释放和运用，并演变成为集体天才的作品。”哈佛商学院教授、领导力研究中心主席琳达·希尔（Linda Hill）在名为“如何管理集体创造力”的 TED 演讲中如是说。 “这与我们的目标很类似。”微软亚洲研究院院长周礼栋说，“打造开放积极、透明无碍、多元包容的环境，吸引全球顶尖科研人才，共同创造具有广泛社会影响且突破性的前瞻技...
Abstracts: May 20, 2024
| Andrey Kolobov and Gretchen Huizinga
Andrey Kolobov discusses WindSeer, a small CNN capable of estimating the wind field around an sUAV in flight more finely and with less compute and data than traditional models. The advancement can help support longer and safer autonomous flights.