Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
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Keynote: Smart Enough to Work With Us? Foundations and Challenges for Teamwork-Enabled AI Systems
For much of its history, AI research has aimed toward building intelligent machines independently of their interactions with people. As the world of computing has evolved, and systems pervade ever more facets of life, the…
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Tech Showcase: Project Malmo – Experimentation Platform for the Next Generation of AI Research
Project Malmo is an open source AI experimentation platform that supports fundamental AI research. With the platform, Microsoft provides an experimentation environment in which promising approaches can be systematically and easily compared, and that fosters…
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Tech Showcase: Customizing Speech Recognition for Higher Accuracy Transcriptions
Two of the most important components of speech recognition systems are the acoustic model and the language model. Those models behind Microsoft’s speech recognition engine have been optimized for certain usage scenarios, such as interacting…
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AI for Accessibility: Augmenting Sensory Capabilities with Intelligent Technology
Advances in AI technologies have important ramifications for the development of accessible technologies. These technologies can augment the capabilities of people with sensory disabilities, enabling new and empowering experiences. In this session, we will present…
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Research in Focus: Private AI
For AI to achieve its potential, it requires access to large amounts of often sensitive data, which can pose threats to our privacy. This session, featuring Rich Caruana and Kristin Lauter of Microsoft and Jung…
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Research in Focus: Conversational agents
Microsoft’s Lucy Vanderwende and Bill Dolan and Ohio State’s Alan Ritter talk about deep learning algorithms that help machines converse in lifelike ways, drawing from social media conversations. They talk about training AI to ask…
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Tech Showcase: InfoBots: AI-Powered Conversational QnA Systems
As we move into the world of messaging apps, bots and botification of content, users are starting to move from keyword searches to relying on bots and assistants for their information seeking needs. Bing has…
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Conversational Systems in the Era of Deep Learning and Big Data
Recent research in recurrent neural models, combined with the availability of massive amounts of dialog data, have together spurred the development of a new generation of conversational systems. Where past approaches focused on task-oriented dialog…
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Tech Showcase: Bing Visual Search
Visual search, AKA search by image, is a new way of searching for information using an image or part of an image as the query. Similar to text search, which connects keyword queries to knowledge…
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Tech Showcase: Deep Artistic Style Transfer: From Images to Videos
This demo demonstrates several applications of Microsoft’s recent work in artistic style transfer for images and videos. One technology, called StyleBank, provides an explicit representation for visual styles with a feedforward deep network that can…
