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Microsoft Research Lab – Redmond

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Read the paper: Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

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In the news: Read more about Project FoodVibes and how the project helps to accelerate data and AI applications to digitize agriculture

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Watch Research Summit 2022 plenary "Emerging Foundations for Planet-scale Computing" on demand

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Human-Centered AI: Ensuring Human Control While Increasing Automation with Ben Shneiderman

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Location: Redmond, WA, US

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Tackling profound computer science challenges

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Cryptography and Privacy Research

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HUE: Human Understanding and Empathy

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Networking Research

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Research in Software Engineering

Meet our research community

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AI Frontiers: The Physics of AI with Sébastien Bubeck

Auto ML and the future of self-managing networks with Dr. Behnaz Arzani

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Neural architecture search, imitation learning and the optimized pipeline with Dr. Debadeepta Dey

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Responsible AI with Dr. Saleema Amershi

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Going deep on deep learning with Dr. Jianfeng Gao

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Data science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh

Inside AR and VR, a technical tour of the reality spectrum with Dr. Eyal Ofek

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Research projects shaping the future

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Contextually Intelligent Assistants

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Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction

Haptic Controllers

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Platform for Situated Intelligence

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Technology for Mental Health and Well-Being Interventions

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