Collaborators: AI and the economy with Brendan Lucier and Mert Demirer
| Gretchen Huizinga, Brendan Lucier, and Mert Demirer
Researcher Brendan Lucier and professor Mert Demirer are applying their micro- and macroeconomic expertise, respectively, to forecasting the economic impact of AI. They share how they’re using a task-level breakdown of occupations to help predict the future.
ACL上新 | 6篇精选论文带你看最新LLMs进展
编者按：欢迎阅读“科研上新”栏目！“科研上新”汇聚了微软亚洲研究院最新的创新成果与科研动态。在这里，你可以快速浏览研究院的亮点资讯，保持对前沿领域的敏锐嗅觉，同时也能找到先进实用的开源工具。 下周，自然语言处理领域的国际顶级学术会议 ACL 2024 将在泰国曼谷举办。本届大会上，微软亚洲研究院共有14篇论文入选，这一期的“科研上新”栏目精选了其中的六篇为大家进行简要介绍。 论文链接：https:...
GENEVA uses large language models for interactive game narrative design
| Sudha Rao, Chris Brockett, and Bill Dolan
Designed for interactive storytelling in games, GENEVA lets users explore narrative paths and adapt stories to diverse contexts. It uses LLMs to generate and visualize branching narratives from high-level descriptions, representing them as graphs.
Players, creators, and AI collaborate to build and expand rich game narratives
| Sudha Rao, Chris Brockett, and Bill Dolan
Integrating LLMs in video game development can create dynamic and interactive narratives. By involving players in the narrative design process, LLMs can generate unique player-driven strategies and provide valuable feedback for game designers.
In the news | GeekWire
Real or Not? New Microsoft quiz targets deepfake AI images and we still can’t really tell the difference
A deepfake, as Microsoft defines it, is an AI generated image, video, or audio recording, typically used to spread false information. With advancements in AI technology, they’re getting harder and harder to detect, and that creates some concerning possibilities, especially as it relates to election integrity…
What’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman
| Johannes Gehrke and Emre Kiciman
Emre Kiciman shares how some keen observations and a desire to have front-end impact led him to make the jump from systems and networking to computational social science and now causal analysis and large-scale AI—and how systems thinking still impacts…
In the news | IT Web
Local AI model is melting pot for African languages
South African artificial intelligence (AI) research and product lab Lelapa AI has introduced its large language model (LLM) that aims to pioneer five African languages, as a start.
作者：SuperBench团队 编者按：近日，来自微软亚洲研究院的研究员们和来自微软 Azure 云平台的工程师们联合发布了一项开创性的、聚焦云 AI 基础设施高可靠性的研究工作：SuperBench 系统。该系统通过主动验证的手段解决了云 AI 基础设施中难以捉摸的“灰色故障”问题。这一研究工作已被全球计算机系统领域的顶级学术会议 USENIX ATC 2024 接收，并荣获最佳论文奖。Supe...
Research Focus: Week of July 29, 2024
In this issue: Skeleton Posterior-guided OpTimization (SPOT) exhibits potential in various causal discovery tasks; Using visual imagery for an EEG-based brain–computer interface; Developing human-centered AI systems to assist creative professionals.