In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Artificial intelligence makes a splash in efforts to protect Alaska’s ice seals and beluga whales
When Erin Moreland set out to become a research zoologist, she envisioned days spent sitting on cliffs, drawing seals and other animals to record their lives for efforts to understand their activities and protect their habitats. Instead, Moreland found herself…
AI for AI: Metareasoning for modular computing systems
| Debadeepta Dey
A new document in a word processor can be a magical thing, a blank page onto which thoughts and ideas are put forth as quickly as we can input text. We can select words and phrases to underline and highlight…
Turing-NLG: A 17-billion-parameter language model by Microsoft
| Corby Rosset
This figure was adapted from a similar image published in DistilBERT. Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a…
ZeRO & DeepSpeed: New system optimizations enable training models with over 100 billion parameters
| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Junhua Wang
The latest trend in AI is that larger natural language models provide better accuracy; however, larger models are difficult to train because of cost, time, and ease of code integration. Microsoft is releasing an open-source library called DeepSpeed, which vastly…
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VROOM: Microsoft Research envisions a workplace filled with Telepresence Robots and AR headsets (video)
Microsoft Research have posted a video on a project called VROOM for Virtual Robot Overlay for Online Meetings. Microsoft imagines users being able to visit locations via a telepresence robot and being represented remotely via an avatar which overlays the…
In the news | Future of Information and Communication Conference
Ecommerce Fraud Detection Through Fraud Islands and Multi-layer Machine Learning Model
Main challenge for e-commerce transaction fraud prevention is that fraud patterns are rather dynamic and diverse. This paper introduces two innovative methods, fraud islands (link analysis) and multi-layer machine learning model, which can effectively tackle the challenge of detecting diverse…
Microsoft Scheduler and dawn of Intelligent PDAs with Dr. Pamela Bhattacharya
In a world where productivity is paramount and only a handful of people have personal assistants, many of us are frustrated by the amount of time we spend in meetings, and worse, the amount time we spend planning, scheduling and…