Microsoft Research Podcast

Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want 

Microsoft Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan and researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen unpack the New Future of Work Report 2025 and explore the ideal AI-driven working world. Plus, is AI a tool or a collaborator? And why the answer matters.

Recent Podcasts

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    The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: An Introduction 

    March 6, 2025 | Peter Lee

    Host Peter Lee, Microsoft Research president, discusses the motivation behind the new series and the GPT-4 encounter that helped him view the tech not only as a potential tool for improving healthcare but a chance to reexamine what it means to care for people.

  2. Ideas podcast | illustration of Shan Lu

    Ideas: Bug hunting with Shan Lu 

    January 23, 2025 | Gretchen Huizinga and Shan Lu

    Struggles with programming languages helped research manager Shan Lu find her calling as a bug hunter. She discusses one bug that really haunted her, the thousands she’s identified since, and how she’s turning to LLMs to help make software more reliable.

  3. Ideas podcast | illustration of Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu

    Ideas: AI for materials discovery with Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu 

    January 16, 2025 | Lindsay Kalter, Ziheng Lu, and Tian Xie

    How do you generate and test materials that don’t exist yet? Researchers Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu share the story behind MatterGen and MatterSim, AI tools poised to transform materials discovery and help drive advances in energy, manufacturing, and sustainability.