SOLOIST: Pairing transfer learning and machine teaching to advance task bots at scale
| Baolin Peng, Chunyuan Li, Jinchao Li, Lars Liden, and Jianfeng Gao
The increasing use of personal assistants and messaging applications has spurred interest in building task-oriented dialog systems (or task bots) that can communicate with users through natural language to accomplish a wide range of tasks, such as restaurant booking, weather…
Econ4: Uncovering how decision-making shapes individuals and society through behavioral public economics featuring Evan Rose and Hunt Allcott
In this episode, Senior Principal Researcher Hunt Allcott talks with Postdoctoral Researcher Evan Rose about Allcott’s work exploring the everyday decisions people face, like buying fuel-efficient cars or taking out payday loans, and how a clearer understanding of these decisions…
Delight might seem like an unimportant component, but it is the icing on the cake of a remarkable customer experience. For me and my team, delivering delightful UX requires us to collectively reimagine every experience we build. Delightful UX isn’t just a bolt on, and…
In the news | Future from a16z
On Workplace Productivity
What does it mean to be productive? At the beginning of the pandemic, when many workers went remote, some managers were tempted to start counting things — whether hours, objects, or other things. But they’re about 100 years and two…
In the news | King 5 | New Day Northwest
Going Hybrid? What will the future workplace look like?
SEATTLE — "Well, we're going to need to be really flexible about thinking about our workspaces as we move forward,” Jaime Teevan, chief scientist for Microsoft’s experiences and devices said. “And actually, you see, something like two-thirds of businesses are…
Podcast: Dependable IoT- Making data from IoT devices dependable and trustworthy for good decision making
Episode 009 | June 15, 2021 The Internet of Things has been around for a few years now and many businesses and organizations depend on data from these systems to make critical decisions. At the same time, it is…
In the news | Microsoft Research India Podcast
Podcast: Dependable IoT- Making data from IoT devices dependable and trustworthy for good decision making
The Internet of Things has been around for a few years now and many businesses and organizations depend on data from these systems to make critical decisions. At the same time, it is also well recognized that this data- even…
How can generative adversarial networks learn real-life distributions easily
| Zeyuan Allen-Zhu and Yuanzhi Li
A Generative adversarial network, or GAN, is one of the most powerful machine learning models proposed by Goodfellow et al. (opens in new tab) for learning to generate samples from complicated real-world distributions. GANs have sparked millions of applications, ranging…
Econ3: Understanding the media ecosystem and how it informs public opinion in the internet age featuring Hunt Allcott and David Rothschild
Interviewed by Senior Principal Researcher Hunt Allcott, Economist David Rothschild discusses how the news media has evolved alongside social media and the internet, from story development to distribution of news via aggregators and wire services. Rothschild illuminates how and where…