MIT Technology Review’s Future Compute Conference 2022

  • Jennifer Strong, Johannes Gehrke | MIT Technology Review, Microsoft Research

Johannes Gehrke, technical fellow and director of Microsoft Research’s Redmond lab, spoke at MIT Future Compute 2022, where IT and business leaders heard from a wide range of speakers across research and industry on the latest developments in computing and AI. In Johannes’ talk, excerpted below, he explored some of the work researchers at Microsoft are doing in large-scale modeling, deep learning, and molecular simulation, and applying that work to the fields of agriculture, climate change, and disease prevention, among others.

1:42 Large-scale AI models and the future of software development workflows

3:44 Human-Centered AI and the Creative Process

10:39 Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Agriculture at Scale

13:46 AI and Precision Medicine

18:54 Climate Change and Microsoft’s Sustainability Goals

19:50 Microsoft’s Approach to Responsible AI

23:55 Harnessing Exponential Trends in Machine Learning

24:58 Machine Learning and Molecular Simulation