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ElectionGuard: a Cryptographic Toolkit to Enable Verifiable Elections

August 16, 2024 | Josh Benaloh, Michael Naehrig, Olivier Pereira, and D. Wallach

,ElectionGuard is a flexible set of open-source tools that---when used with traditional election systems---can produce end-to-end verifiable elections whose integrity can be verified by observers, candidates, media, and even voters themselves. ElectionGuard has been integrated into a variety of systems and used in actual public…
3 Questions: How to prove humanity online

August 16, 2024 | Shrey Jain

AI agents could soon become indistinguishable from humans online. Could “personhood credentials” protect people against digital imposters? As artificial intelligence agents become more advanced, it could become increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-powered users and real humans on the internet. In a new white paper,…
To reduce wildlife deaths caused by fences, scientists are turning to AI

August 16, 2024

As many as 1 million kilometers of fence may crisscross the western United States, enough to stretch to the Moon and back. Erected over the past century, largely to contain livestock, the barbed and woven wire fences also hinder wildlife such as deer, elk, and pronghorn from…
Abstracts: August 15, 2024

August 15, 2024 | Amber Tingle, Shrey Jain, and Zoë Hitzig

Advanced AI may make it easier for bad actors to deceive others online. A multidisciplinary research team is exploring one solution: a credential that allows people to show they’re not bots without sharing identifying information. Shrey Jain and Zoë Hitzig explain.
Aurora

August 15, 2024

Aurora is a machine learning model that can predict atmospheric variables, such as temperature. It is a foundation model, which means that it was first generally trained on a lot of data and then can be adapted to specialized atmospheric forecasting tasks with relatively little…
Aurora Forecasting

August 15, 2024

A flexible 3D foundation model of the atmosphere. Aurora, developed by a team of Microsoft researchers, is a cutting-edge AI foundation model that can extract valuable insights from vast amounts of atmospheric data. This 1.3 billion parameter model excels at a wide range of prediction…
LLexus: an AI agent system for incident management

August 15, 2024 | Pedro Las-Casas, Alok Kumbhare, Rodrigo Fonseca, and Sharad Agarwal

When operating a software service on a cloud, the complexity of keeping multiple distributed components responsive is a significant challenge for engineering teams. Engineers frequently rely on Troubleshooting Guides (TSGs) to navigate how to mitigate performance or outage incidents. However, the effectiveness of TSGs is…
A Methodology for Using Large Language Models to Create User-Friendly Applications for Medicaid Redetermination and Other Social Services

August 15, 2024

Background Following the unwinding of Medicaid’s continuous enrollment provision, states must redetermine Medicaid eligibility, creating uncertainty about coverage [1] and the widespread administrative removal of beneficiaries from rolls [2]. Existing research demonstrates that Large Language Models (LLMs) can automate clinical trial eligibility query extraction [3],…
Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today

August 15, 2024 | Judith Amores and Kori Inkpen

An intelligent digital agent could be a companion for life—and other predictions for the next 125 years. Happy birthday, baby. You have been born into an era of intelligent machines. They have watched over you almost since your conception. They let your parents listen in…
Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online

August 15, 2024

Anonymity is an important principle online. However, malicious actors have long used misleading identities to conduct fraud, spread disinformation, and carry out other deceptive schemes. With the advent of increasingly capable AI, bad actors can amplify the potential scale and effectiveness of their operations, intensifying…
Research Focus: Week of August 12, 2024

August 14, 2024

In this issue: Research Forum Ep. 4 explores multimodal AI. Registration is now open; Surveying developers’ AI needs; SuperBench improves cloud AI infrastructure reliability; Virtual Voices: Exploring factors influencing participation in virtual meetings.
African Languages Research

August 14, 2024 | Jacki O'Neill and Millicent Ochieng

Bridging technological and community divides by enriching Generative AI research with the rich diversity of African languages. Join us in shaping a more inclusive digital future Microsoft Research Africa is pioneering advancements in Generative AI through our African Languages Research initiative, focusing on advancing Large…

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