In the news | The Times of Israel

Microsoft partners with Start-Up Nation Central to tap Israeli agrifood tech 

US tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Start-Up Nation Central to help Israeli agrifood tech startups augment their AI-powered models for sustainable farming solutions and get exposure to global markets. Microsoft and Start-Up Nation Central are working together to identify…

GitHub Product Manager Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs Research Scientist Petar Maymounkov discuss their collaboration on Gov4git on the Microsoft Research Podcast
Microsoft Research Podcast

| Gretchen Huizinga, Petar Maymounkov, and Kasia Sitkiewicz

Collaboration is key to bringing ideas from lab to life. In the first episode of the #MSRPodcast series “Collaborators,” learn how GitHub’s Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs’ Petar Maymounkov are teaming up to make open-source collaborative work better.

A flow chart demonstrating the five steps in a self-play pipeline for a language model to improve itself automatically.A self-play pipeline for a language model (LM) to improve itself in a fully automatic manner. First, the LM generates novel puzzles based on a training set of handwritten puzzles. Then, the LM attempts to solve each of these puzzles 100 times. In Step 3, the computer (specifically a Python interpreter) filters the candidate solutions for correctness. Finally, the LM is improved by further training on these verified correct solutions to synthetic puzzles, and the process repeats. This process leads to significant improvements as measured on held-out test puzzles that were also handwritten.
Microsoft Research Blog

| Adam Tauman Kalai and Patrick Haluptzok

Self-play has helped AI systems succeed in games like chess and Go. Can the same method help improve AI programming abilities? Using easy-to-check, hard-to-solve programming problems, researchers show AI can create, solve, and train on its own puzzles.

Awards | International World Wide Web Conference

John Langford, Rob Schapire and co-authors receive the 2023 Seoul Test of Time Award 

The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) announced today that the 2023 Seoul Test of Time Award will be presented to the authors of the paper “A Contextual-Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation;” Wei Chu, (Ant Group), Lihong…

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In the news | Fast Company

Companies adopting AI need to move slowly and not break things 

As the surge of interest in artificial intelligence applications continues unabated since last fall’s launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one can trace it spreading from the tech industry itself to every corner of corporate America. McKinsey’s new State of Organizations 2023 report…

In the news | Fortune

Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer, one of the world’s leading A.I. experts, doesn’t think a 6 month pause will fix A.I.—but has some ideas of how to safeguard it 

Eric Horvitz, Microsoft’s first Chief Scientific Officer and one of the leading voices within the rapidly-evolving sector of artificial intelligence, has spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to be human.

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Microsoft Research Focus 14 edition, week of April 24, 2023
Microsoft Research Blog

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Yael Tauman Kalai, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, has been awarded…