CausalCity: Introducing a high-fidelity simulation with agency for advancing causal reasoning in machine learning
| Daniel McDuff, Yale Song, Sai Vemprala, Vibhav Vineet, Shuang Ma, and Ashish Kapoor
The ability to reason about causality, and ask ``what would happen if…?’’ is one property that sets human intelligence apart from artificial intelligence. Modern AI algorithms perform well on clearly defined pattern recognition tasks but fall short generalizing in the…
Inclusion in user research is about more than increasing gender and ethnic diversity in the field. Inclusion also means recognizing non-traditional backgrounds and using the skills and experiences that people with different viewpoints can offer. I want to share how my…
In the news | Microsoft Industry Blogs
Empowering better care, everywhere, for everyone with Retail+Health
Over the past year, the pandemic fundamentally changed several industries and impacted the means of consumption and distribution for goods and services globally. With the introduction of social distancing, the decline of indoor interactions and transactions, and unparalleled strain on…
Awards | PLDI 2021 Conference
Ben Zorn awarded SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award 2021
Ben Zorn was honored with the SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award 2021 having served the programming language community for many years and in many capacities. He also has mentored many of his work colleagues and visiting students/professors at Microsoft Research, who…
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Microsoft named Principal Partner for COP26
Time is running out on efforts to stabilize our global climate system. Doing so will require transitioning our world to a net zero carbon economy by 2050. Failing to do so risks unprecedented social and economic disruption. This year, the…
Microsoft LReasoner leads the ReClor challenge on logical reasoning
| Natural Language Computing Group
For many years AI researchers have sought to build upon traditional machine learning, which trains technology to process facts and learn from them, and develop machine reasoning, in which programs apply logic to data and solve problems – comparable to…
New Future of Work: Driving innovation via cross-company research with Jaime Teevan and Brent Hecht
In this episode of The New Future of Work series of the podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht of the Experiences and Devices group in Microsoft share how an internal SharePoint document led to…
Awards | The 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2021) | June 2021
Li Lyna Zhang, Ting Cao, and Yuqing Yang Mobisys 2021 Best Paper Award
Li Lyna Zhang, Ting Cao, and Yuqing Yang Mobisys 2021 Best Paper Award nn-Meter: Towards Accurate Latency Prediction of Deep-Learning Model Inference on Diverse Edge Devices.
Recently, the industry has witnessed the growth of highly advanced and powerful AI language models. When the industry marvels at its variety of skills, like drawing, writing, and game-playing, it also worries for its IQ. For example, if you try…