Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
Project
GODEL: Large-Scale Pre-training for Goal-Directed Dialog
This is the home page of project GODEL (Grounded Open Dialogue Language Model), a large open-source pre-trained language model for dialog. In contrast with its predecessor DialoGPT, GODEL leverages a new phase of grounded pretraining designed to…
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Where on Earth is AI Headed?
Ten years ago, computers could not understand spoken words well, but today we routinely speak to our mobile phones, and computer vision algorithms have now reached human or super-human level performance for many types of…
Microsoft Research Blog
(De)ToxiGen: Leveraging large language models to build more robust hate speech detection tools
It’s a well-known challenge that large language models (LLMs)—growing in popularity thanks to their adaptability across a variety of applications—carry risks. Because they’re trained on large amounts of data from across the internet, they’re capable…
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