Project
Kahani
Kahani: Visual Storytelling is a research prototype that allows the user to create visually striking and culturally nuanced images just by describing them in their local languages.
Social sciences
Publication
Evaluating General-Purpose AI with Psychometrics
Microsoft Research Blog
Understanding the user: How the Enterprise System Usability Scale aligns with user reality
This position research paper was presented at the 26th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (opens in new tab) (CSCW 2023), a premier venue for research on the design and use of…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of October 9, 2023
Research Focus: Principal researcher Lester Mackey recognized for pioneering statistical and ML techniques; Pareto frontiers in neural feature learning; structural inequality in the influencer industry; new research on cardinality estimation.
Podcast
AI Frontiers: Measuring and mitigating harms with Hanna Wallach
Powerful large-scale AI models like GPT-4 are showing dramatic improvements in reasoning, problem-solving, and language capabilities. This marks a phase change for artificial intelligence—and a signal of accelerating progress to come. In this Microsoft Research…
Video
Microsoft Research India – who we are.
Employees from Microsoft Research India talk about their work, their aspirations to change the world and what makes MSR India such a great place to work in.
Microsoft Research Blog
Understanding social biases through the text-to-image generation lens
Gender, race, and age disparities in AI-generated images persist. This AIES 2023 study on text-to-image models shows that even basic prompts can lead to underrepresentation, calling for responsible bias mitigation strategies.
