Research Focus: Week of February 20, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Many real-world applications require sequential decision making,…
Physics of AI
We propose an approach to the science of deep learning that roughly follows what physicists do to understand reality: (1) explore phenomena through controlled experiments, and (2) build theories based on toy mathematical models and…
Semantic Kernel
Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK enabling integration of AI Large Language Models (LLMs) with conventional programming languages. The SK extensible programming model combines natural language semantic functions, traditional code native functions, and embeddings-based…
Fighting the Global Social Media Infodemic: from Fake News to Harmful Content
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us the first global social media infodemic. While fighting this infodemic is typically thought of in terms of factuality, the problem is much broader as malicious content includes not only…
Lean
Lean is a functional programming language and interactive theorem prover. Our project strives to revolutionize mathematics by empowering anyone with an interest to grow in the field using Lean as their assistant. Lean was developed…