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More than a game: Mastering Mahjong with AI and machine learning
Microsoft researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has taught itself the intricacies of Mahjong and can now match the skills of some of the world’s top players.
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微软超级麻将AI Suphx，破解非完美信息游戏
要说中国最流行、群众基础最深厚的运动是什么，那一定是历史悠久、老少咸宜的“国粹”——麻将。 麻将的起源众说纷纭，今天我们熟知的麻将玩法大体成型于晚清，在当时称作“麻雀”。随着商贸与外交活动的开展，麻将渐渐风行亚洲，乃至流传到世界各地，成为蕴含着古老的东方哲学与博弈智慧的“一股神秘的东方力量”。在今天，无论是逢年过节的热闹团圆，还是日常小聚的茶余饭后，随时随地，凑齐四个人一桌牌就能打个热火朝天。
HE compilers for Private AI and other game changers with Dr. Olli Saarikivi
Episode 87, August 28, 2019- As computing moves to the cloud, there is an increasing need for privacy in AI. In an ideal world, users would have the ability to compute on encrypted data without sacrificing performance. Enter Dr. Olli…
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HE compilers for Private AI and other game changers with Dr. Olli Saarikivi
Dr. Olli Saarikivi, along with a stellar group of cross-disciplinary colleagues, are bridging the gap with CHET, a compiler and runtime for homomorphic evaluation of tensor programs, that keeps data private while making the complexities of homomorphic encryption schemes opaque…
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Next-Gen Cloud Computing
UC Santa Barbara selected as charter member of Microsoft’s Optics for the Cloud Research Alliance. At an ever-increasing rate, people around the world are turning to the cloud — a globally distributed computer network connected by the internet — to…
First TextWorld Problems, the competition: Using text-based games to advance capabilities of AI agents
| Adam Trischler, Marc-Alexandre Côté, and Pedro Lima
Public competitions often help to advance the state of the art in challenging research problems. They frame a question, provide relevant data, and define evaluation metrics so that researchers across the world can work toward a shared goal—and ultimately learn…
Machine reading comprehension with Dr. T.J. Hazen
The ability to read and understand unstructured text, and then answer questions about it, is a common skill among literate humans. But for machines? Not so much. At least not yet! And not if Dr. T.J. Hazen, Senior Principal Research…
Who’s to blame? Debugging Internet performance for Azure users with BlameIt
| Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
Microsoft Azure cloud hosts a wide variety of services, and Azure has hundreds of network edge locations worldwide across the globe’s six continents to host those services. The Azure locations host many interactive (latency-sensitive) services that cater to consumer and…