Abstracts: May 20, 2024
| Andrey Kolobov and Gretchen Huizinga
Andrey Kolobov discusses WindSeer, a small CNN capable of estimating the wind field around an sUAV in flight more finely and with less compute and data than traditional models. The advancement can help support longer and safer autonomous flights.
Podcast: Evaluating LLMs using novel approaches. With Dr. Sunayana Sitaram
Episode 015 | May 21, 2024 [Music] Sunayana Sitaram: Our ultimate goal is to build evaluation systems and also other kinds of systems in general where humans and LLMs can work together. We're really trying to get humans to do…
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Inside Audrey Tang’s Plan to Align Technology and Democracy
E. Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang's new book provides a vision of how advanced collaborative technology can bolster democracy.
What’s Your Story: Jacki O’Neill
| Johannes Gehrke and Jacki O'Neill
Jacki O'Neill saw an opportunity to expand Microsoft research efforts to Africa. She now leads Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi (formerly MARI). O'Neill talks about the choices that got her there, the lab’s impact, and how living abroad is good for…
“If life is a marathon, then health is the key to its duration.” Health is not only the foundation of happiness and societal progress but also a pivotal aspect of the intelligent era. AI’s integration into healthcare represents a transformative…
AI for Science，憧憬一个人人都可参与科学发现的未来
作者：刘铁岩 编者按：正处于起步阶段的 AI for Science 被认为是科学发现的第五范式。尽管目前对于 AI for Science 的定义和研究方向仍有诸多讨论，但这并不妨碍 AI for Science 已经开始在科学发现的实践中取得令人瞩目的成果。近年来，微软研究院科学智能中心杰出首席科学家刘铁岩博士和他的团队致力于推动 AI for Science 的发展和应用。在这篇署名文章中，...
Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024
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. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating text similar to…
Microsoft at CHI 2024: Innovations in human-centered design
From immersive virtual experiences to interactive design tools, Microsoft Research is at the frontier of exploring how people engage with technology. Discover our latest breakthroughs in human-computer interaction research at CHI 2024.
MatterSim：人工智能解锁材料设计的无限可能
作者：科学智能中心 编者按：随着科技的不断发展，新材料已成为增强产业竞争力的关键因素。然而，新材料的物理和化学特性复杂多变，准确预测其属性，特别是实际合成和使用条件下的属性，是物质科学领域中长期存在的挑战，也是材料工业数字化转型的核心挑战之一。 为了破解这一难题，微软研究院科学智能中心（Microsoft Research AI for Science）开发了深度学习模型 MatterSim，能够...