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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Divide and conquer: How Microsoft researchers used AI to master Ms. Pac-Man
Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man, using a divide-and-conquer method that could have broad implications for teaching…
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Hybrid Reward Architecture (HRA) Achieving super-human performance on Ms. Pac-Man
Games are popular as a test-bed for new machine learning techniques because they can be very challenging and allow for easy analysis of new learning techniques in a controlled environment. For reinforcement learning, where the…
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Path Guide: Plug-and-play Indoor Navigation
Path Guide is a completely plug-and-play indoor navigation service that does not require maps or any additional equipment. Using Path Guide, users can create routes by recording sensory data with their smartphones while walking indoors,…
Microsoft Research Blog
A Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation
At the Microsoft Research Montreal lab, one of our primary research focuses is to advance the field of Question Answering. Automatic question-answering systems can provide humans with efficient access to vast amounts of information, and…
