Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Microsoft Research Blog
Applicability vs. job displacement: further notes on our recent research on AI and occupations
Recently, we released a paper Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI that studied what occupations might find AI chatbots useful, and to what degree. The paper sparked significant discussion, which is no surprise since people care deeply about the future of AI and jobs–that’s part…
Podcast
Coauthor roundtable: Reflecting on healthcare economics, biomedical research, and medical education
For the series finale, Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Dr. Zak Kohane compare their predictions to insights from the series’ most recent guests, including experts on AI’s economic and societal impact, leaders in AI-driven medicine,…
Video
MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning
The video introduces MindJourney, a framework that enhances Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which excel at interpreting single images but struggle to infer the underlying three-dimensional world. By allowing the VLM to “imagine” moving through the scene…
Microsoft Research Blog
MindJourney enables AI to explore simulated 3D worlds to improve spatial interpretation
MindJourney can enable AI to navigate and interpret 3D environments from limited visual input, potentially improving performance in navigation, planning, and safety-critical tasks.
Event
Deep Learning Indaba 2025
Microsoft is honored to sponsor Deep Learning Indaba 2025 (opens in new tab), Africa’s premier AI and machine learning gathering. The event will take place in Kigali, Rwanda from 17–22 August 2025. This year’s theme, Urunana – Hand in…
Dataset Source Code
Sui Generis
Source code for the paper: Echoes in AI: Quantifying Lack of Plot Diversity in LLM Outputs