News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
VROOM: Microsoft Research envisions a workplace filled with Telepresence Robots and AR headsets (video)
Microsoft Research have posted a video on a project called VROOM for Virtual Robot Overlay for Online Meetings. Microsoft imagines users being able to visit locations via a telepresence robot and being represented remotely via…
Ecommerce Fraud Detection Through Fraud Islands and Multi-layer Machine Learning Model
Main challenge for e-commerce transaction fraud prevention is that fraud patterns are rather dynamic and diverse. This paper introduces two innovative methods, fraud islands (link analysis) and multi-layer machine learning model, which can effectively tackle…
Meet Clippy 9000: Microsoft brags about building Earth’s largest AI language model, refuses to let it out of the lab
There’s a new giant AI language model in town: enter Microsoft’s Turing-NLG system, which apparently contains a whopping 17 billion parameters, making it the largest publicly known model of its class yet.
A.I. and tackling the risk of “digital redlining”
Last week, a Dutch court ordered the government in the Netherlands to stop using a machine-learning algorithm for detecting welfare fraud, citing human rights violations. The system, called System Risk Indicator (SyRI) in English, was…
Microsoft builds the world’s largest transformer-based language generation model
Transformer-based language generation models have enabled better conversational applications. Though they still have their shortcomings, which were recently exposed by a team at MIT, researchers continue improving them to build better, larger, and more robust…
Microsoft’s New Turing NLG is the Largest Transformer Language Model
Microsoft has developed a Transformer-based language generation model that it describes as the largest ever made. This week, Microsoft AI & Research announced Turing NLG, which is twice the size of its nearest competitor.
Microsoft DeepSpeed with Zero Can Train 100 Billion Parameter AI Models
Microsoft has released a new open-source library called DeepSpeed, which, when combined with its ‘ZeRO’ module can train 100 billion parameter models without using the resources traditionally associated with that.
Microsoft unveils ‘largest ever’ AI natural language model
Microsoft has revealed its largest deep learning language model, the Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG), which is claimed to have a record-breaking 17 billion parameters. The T-NLG, according to Microsoft, outperforms the largest deep learning models to date: the University of Washington’s…