In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft Research head Peter Lee on the applications of GPT-4 in medicine and life sciences
Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, was tasked with assessing the implications of GPT-4 for medicine. And he thinks it could increase efficiency and even empathy in the healthcare system, as well as boost biomedical research.
In the news | New England Journal of Medicine
Benefits, Limits, and Risks of GPT-4 as an AI Chatbot for Medicine
Chatbots are computer programs with which one can have a conversation. In this article, the authors describe how the GPT-4 chatbot, which has been given a general education, could affect the practice of medicine.
Research Focus: Week of March 27, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Machine translation (MT) models are designed to learn from large amounts of data…
那些年，参加过 Ada Workshop 的她们，现在都怎么样了？
参加 Ada Workshop 是怎样一种体验？ 她们在谈论什么？她们想要试图改变什么？她们传递了怎样的力量？ 今天，我们邀请到四位往届参会者分享，那些被女性科技榜样们所“点亮”的成长故事。如果你也好奇，请接着看下去吧～ 丁小欧大学计算学部助理教授 「望远山而前行」 2019年，我参加了 Ada Workshop 的线下活动。说实话，这是我第一次与如此多计算机专业的女同学和女老师们坐在一起、聊在一...
Awards | ACM ASPLOS
Daniel Berger and Pantea Zardoshti receive ASPLOS 2023 Distinguished Paper Award
Our paper, Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms, was selected as a distinguished paper by the ASPLOS'23 organizers. Congrats to Daniel S. Berger and Pantea Zardoshti .
In the news | BBC: The Climate Question
Can artificial intelligence help farmers adapt to the effects of climate change?
AI is changing the way we work and live. But with climate change impacting seasonal temperatures and rainfalls around the world, can it help make food production more sustainable?
AI Explainer: Foundation models and the next era of AI
| Ahmed Awadallah
The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a significant advance that builds on several years of rapid innovation in foundation models. GPT-4, which was trained on the Microsoft Azure AI supercomputer, has exhibited significantly improved abilities across many dimensions—from summarizing lengthy…
AI Frontiers: The Physics of AI with Sébastien Bubeck
| Sébastien Bubeck and Ashley Llorens
The first episode of the new Microsoft Research Podcast series, AI Frontiers, features Sébastien Bubeck, who leads the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. He and his collaborators conducted an extensive evaluation of GPT-4 while it was…
In the news | Futurism
Microsoft Researchers Claim GPT-4 Is Showing “Sparks” of AGI
Fresh on the heels of GPT-4's public release, a team of Microsoft AI scientists published a research paper claiming the OpenAI language model — which powers Microsoft's now somewhat lobotomized Bing AI — shows "sparks" of human-level intelligence, or artificial…