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Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Unlocked
AI Anthology
Recent advances in AI have sparked both wonder and anxiety as we contemplate its transformative potential. AI holds enormous promise to enrich our lives, but this anticipation comes intertwined with apprehensions about the challenges and risks that might emerge. To…
Dans l’actualité | Fortune
Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer, one of the world’s leading A.I. experts, doesn’t think a 6 month pause will fix A.I.—but has some ideas of how to safeguard it
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft’s first Chief Scientific Officer and one of the leading voices within the rapidly-evolving sector of artificial intelligence, has spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to be human.
Prix | Web Science Trust
Scott Counts, Eric Horvitz awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award
The Web Science Trust (WST) awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award to Mumum De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz the authors of “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”. The award…
Dans l’actualité | EPFL News
Pass me the pastries, please
A new global study by researchers from EPFL, the University of Fribourg, and Microsoft Research has found there was an overall surge in high calorie foods such as pastries, bread and pies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Dans l’actualité | EricHorvitz.com
A Milestone Reached
Strong democracies are built on an informed and compassionate citizenry. Disinformation campaigns, designed to mislead, persuade, and sow division, can disrupt our understandings, and fan the flames of discontent. We just hit a significant milestone in technologies that can bring…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft On the Issues
A promising step forward on disinformation
“What can we do?” Those words continued to echo as I returned home from the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2019. The director of a major news organization asked me that question point blank after we reviewed several deepfake…
Dans l’actualité | CNBC
Microsoft unifies research groups as it appoints a science chief
Microsoft is switching the leadership of its research wing after senior executive Harry Shum left the company last month. The change signals Microsoft’s interest in longer-term research efforts. In addition to unifying parts of Microsoft Research under one person, the company…
Dans l’actualité | MSPoweruser
Peter Lee becomes the head of Microsoft Research
Microsoft today announced leadership changes for Microsoft Research. Peter Lee will be the new leader for the Microsoft Research organization. Peter Lee was already leading several research teams that were developing technology in healthcare and life sciences. In his new…
Advancing Human-Centered AI
| Eric Horvitz
We’re excited about the formal launch of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Monday, March 18th. We resonate with Fei-Fei Li, John Etchemendy, and other leaders at Stanford on the promise of taking an interdisciplinary approach to…