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Sriram Rajamani at Microsoft Research on AI and deep tech in India
Sriram K Rajamani, corporate vice president and managing director of Microsoft Research India Lab, reflects on how computer science and engineering research has evolved at the centre, in Bengaluru. In this conversation, Rajamani touches upon how AI and large language…
Microsoft Research Forum Episode 3: Globally inclusive and equitable AI, new use cases for AI, and more
“We’re at the very early stage of generative AI and the impacts it will have on work. This is a fast-moving field, and there’s an immense opportunity to take control of the agenda and build truly globally equitable AI systems”,…
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…
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…
Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
| Kalika Bali and Gretchen Huizinga
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource…
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.
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Village by village, creating the building blocks for AI tools
Indian social impact organization, Karya, uses Microsoft AI to provide their employees with educational tools to earn and learn: https://msft.it/6044c3no2
Microsoft Research Forum: New series explores bold ideas in technology research in the era of AI
Microsoft Research Forum (opens in new tab) is a new series of conversations that explore recent advances, bold new ideas, and important discussions within the global research community. Leading Microsoft researchers will share insights into their work, followed by live…
Jianfeng Gao, Sumit Gulwani, Nicole Immorlica, Stefan Saroiu, Manik Varma, and Xing Xie are among the new class of 68 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellows for their transformative contributions to computing science and technology.