Substance, not hype, powers AI excitement at premier machine learning conference
By Christopher Bishop, Distinguished Scientist and Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab This month, I will attend the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), the premier gathering in the machine learning field.…
Making better use of the crowd
By Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Over the last decade, computer scientists have harnessed crowds of Internet users to solve tasks that are notoriously difficult to crack with computers alone, such as determining…
Teacher Assisted Learning
Modern statistical machine learning (SML) methods share a major limitation with the early approaches to AI: there is no scalable way to adapt them to new domains. Human Learning solves this in part by leveraging…