One of the driving forces behind AI’s rapid progress is access to large-scale, high-quality data, essential to enable training models to continuously improve and perform reliably. But that well is running dry. As the supply of usable internet data shrinks,…
UI-Evol: 让智能体“知行合一”
编者按：当 AI 智能体走出实验室，在真实世界中执行任务时，只有知识还远远不够。但如今的许多智能体即使拥有正确的信息，可在实际操作中仍频频失误，任务完成率令人堪忧。微软亚洲研究院的研究员对此提出了一个新方法 UI-Evol，旨在帮助计算机使用智能体（Computer Use Agent）进化知识，使智能体不仅“知道该怎么做”，还要真正“做得到”。在该方法的加持下，智能体在实际执行能力、稳定性和可靠...
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E204 ‘Multilingual Innovation and AI’ with Microsoft’s Kalika Bali
Today’s guest is Kalika Bali, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. In the episode, Kalika talks about her intriguing journey and impactful work, as well as peeling back the layers of how accidental moments can shape careers and how…
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Mapping global floods with 10 years of satellite radar data
Floods are among the deadliest and most costly forms of extreme weather, affecting millions of people and causing over $40 billion in damage annually. And they’re getting worse. As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation, we…
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Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations
Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society’s most important questions. In this work, we take a step toward…
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from genome editing
| Kathleen Sullivan, Alta Charo, and Daniel Kluttz
Bioethics and law expert R. Alta Charo explores the value of regulating technologies at the application level and the role of coordinated oversight in genome editing, while Microsoft GM Daniel Kluttz reflects on Charo’s points, drawing parallels to AI governance.
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Kevin Hsieh selected to participate in 2025 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
The signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering brings the next generation of engineering leaders together to share new techniques and approaches, facilitate collaboration, and build professional networks.
PadChest-GR: A bilingual grounded radiology reporting benchmark for chest X-rays
| Daniel Coelho de Castro and Javier Alvarez-Valle
The world’s first multimodal, bilingual radiology dataset could reshape the way radiologists and AI systems make sense of X-rays. PadChest-GR, developed by the University of Alicante with Microsoft Research, has the potential to advance research across the field for years…
编者按：2022年11月，ChatGPT 的诞生开启了人工智能的新纪元。在过去几年的时间里，人工智能在全球的医疗健康领域有怎样的应用？未来又有哪些机遇？近日，在微软研究院最新一期的播客节目中，微软联合创始人、盖茨基金会主席比尔·盖茨及 OpenAI 研究负责人 Sébastien Bubeck 与微软全球资深副总裁、微软研究院院长、微软全球研究与创新孵化负责人 Peter Lee 对此进行了探讨，...