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Research Focus: Week of July 3, 2023
In this issue: A new study looks at engineers’ views on hybrid work; prompt engineering adds context and specificity to generative AI models; Overwatch learns code edit patterns to aid developers; a Qlib update addresses financial market challenges.
Collaborators: Holoportation™ communication technology with Spencer Fowers and Kwame Darko
| Gretchen Huizinga, Spencer Fowers, and Dr. Kwame Darko
A global team of medical providers is leveraging Holoportation, a Microsoft 3D capture and communication technology, to widen access to specialized care. Computer engineer Spencer Fowers and plastic surgeon Kwame Darko discuss the collaboration.
Research Focus: Week of June 19, 2023
In this issue: Our new Responsible AI Maturity Model; FoundWright helps “re-find” web pages; Trace-guided Inductive Synthesis of Recursive Functional Programs; a wait-free algorithm for weak reference counting; and new research on concurrency testing.
AI Frontiers: The future of causal reasoning with Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
| Ashley Llorens, Emre Kiciman, and Amit Sharma
Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma join Ashley Llorens to discuss the causal capabilities of LLMs and ongoing journeys with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in the newest episode of the Microsoft Research Podcast series, “AI Frontiers.”
Awards | AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at AAMAS 2023
Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (opens in new tab) for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity” by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann and Shimon Whiteson
3D telemedicine brings better care to underserved and rural communities, even across continents
Providing healthcare in remote or rural areas is challenging, particularly specialized medicine and surgical procedures. Patients may need to travel long distances just to get to medical facilities and to communicate with caregivers. They may not arrive in time to…
In the news | OpenAI
Democratic Inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
Research Focus: Week of May 22, 2023
In this edition: New research explores the causal ability of LLMs and DNA storage in thermoresponsive capsules; a talk on human-centered AI; and a CFP for funding for LLM productivity research projects from the Microsoft New Future of Work Initiative.
Large-language models for automatic cloud incident management
| Rujia Wang, Chetan Bansal, Supriyo GHOSH, Tom Zimmermann, Xuchao Zhang, and Saravan Rajmohan
This research was accepted by the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (opens in new tab), which is a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to gather, present, and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and issues in…