Research Focus: Week of April 1, 2024
In this issue: New research helps COMET embrace African languages; FeatUp improves deep features, a computer vision research cornerstone; LLMs in the Imaginarium: Tool Learning through Simulated Trial and Error; Benchmarking LLMs across languages and more.
In the news | WIRED
FOSSA Systems Explores Satellite IoT with Microsoft Research
In the news | LinkedIn Article
AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health
In the past six years, as head of the AI for Good Labs at Microsoft, Juan M. Lavista Ferres has had the extraordinary privilege of working on some of the most inspiring and impactful projects at the intersection of artificial…
Generative AI in agriculture
Using GenAI in agriculture can help address the specific queries of different personas within the Agri-Food ecosystem, from farmers and policymakers, consumer, retailers to financial service providers and sustainability consultants.
In the news | Handelsblatt
Das Yottabyte-Zeitalter – wie Glas unsere Daten rettet
Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz sorgen für Datenmengen, die die Vorstellungskraft sprengen. Ausgerechnet einer der ältesten Werkstoffe der Menschheit soll helfen.
In the Accelerator team of Microsoft Research Asia, women from diverse countries, with diverse academic backgrounds and life experiences, are weaving bridges for interdisciplinary research in their own distinctive ways. These remarkable women embrace unconventional workplace philosophies and life approaches.…
In the news | Semafor Technology
A pitch on AI for Good
Since the ChatGPT moment back in November 2022, much of the AI conversation has revolved around the risks and fear of this new technology. And when those things are being discussed, there is always an obligatory line about how technology…
MicroCinema与CCEdit：让文生视频兼具创造性与可控性
编者按：随着视频生成技术的飞速进步，我们见证了人工智能技术在视频清晰度、长视频连贯性以及对物理变化理解和镜头转换处理能力方面的显著提升。不过，这些高质量的生成结果是否完全符合我们的需求呢？显然，并非总是如此。由于生成模型的不可预测性，其生成结果常常与用户预期偏离。 在微软亚洲研究院的研究员们看来，创造性与可控性兼备的视频生成模型才是人工智能技术落地应用的关键。基于这一理念，研究员们研发了两项创新的...
AI Frontiers: Rethinking intelligence with Ashley Llorens and Ida Momennejad
| Ashley Llorens and Ida Momennejad
Principal Researcher Ida Momennejad brings her expertise in cognitive neuroscience and computer science to this in-depth conversation about general intelligence and what the evolution of the brain across species can teach us about building AI.