In the wake of Covid-19, countless businesses and communities around the world have shifted to remote and work-from-home environments. This rapid shift placed an unforeseen burden on IT Administrators and the ecosystems that support them, so a team of researchers…
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Veterans Affairs Launches First Chatbot to Field COVID-19 Questions
The bot was developed and deployed via Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot platform. The Veterans Affairs Department recently deployed a coronavirus chatbot to help veterans and their caregivers find answers to pressing questions triggered amid the pandemic.
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Four common challenges governments face in a time of crisis
Recent global events have shown that digital technology and data have become indispensable tools for governments as they adapt to changes across their organizations. Many government leaders are taking stock and imagining a future with the most attentive, helpful citizen…
Assistive AI Makes Replying Easier
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more. So, we are constantly looking for opportunities to simplify workflows and save people time and effort. Sending replies to email or chat messages is a common activity and…
Better Document Previews using the Microsoft Turing Model for Natural Language Representations
By Rahul Jha and Payal Bajaj Knowledge workers spend close to 20% of their time searching for and gathering information. When using document management systems such as Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint people find themselves looking at directories full of documents.…
Fairness and interpretability in AI: Putting people first
At the 2005 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, researcher Hanna Wallach found herself in a unique position—sharing a hotel room with another woman. Actually, three other women to be exact. In the previous years she had attended, that had…
Research Collection: Tools and Data to Advance the State of the Art
“This is a game changer for the big data community. Initiatives like Microsoft Research Open Data reduce barriers to data sharing and encourage reproducibility by leveraging the power of cloud computing” —Sam Madden, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology An open…
ZeRO-2 & DeepSpeed: Shattering barriers of deep learning speed & scale
| DeepSpeed Team, Rangan Majumder, and Junhua Wang
In February, we announced DeepSpeed, an open-source deep learning training optimization library, and ZeRO (Zero Redundancy Optimizer), a novel memory optimization technology in the library, which vastly advances large model training by improving scale, speed, cost, and usability. DeepSpeed has…