Azure AI milestone: Microsoft KEAR surpasses human performance on CommonsenseQA benchmark
KEAR (Knowledgeable External Attention for commonsense Reasoning)—along with recent milestones in computer vision and neural text-to-speech—is part of a larger Azure AI (opens in new tab) mission to provide relevant, meaningful AI solutions and services that work better…
Azure AI milestone: New Neural Text-to-Speech models more closely mirror natural speech
Neural Text-to-Speech—along with recent milestones in computer vision and question answering—is part of a larger Azure AI (opens in new tab) mission to provide relevant, meaningful AI solutions and services that work better for people…
Bioacoustics
Bioacoustics is a cross-disciplinary science that combines biology and acoustics. Usually, it refers to the investigation of sound production, dispersion and reception in animals (including humans). In our research lab, we collaborate with conservation organizations…
Unification – Map
Series – Customer Insights in Under 5 Ever wonder what “intelligent mapping” does? What entities to include in the Map phase of Unification? Or maybe what all the fuse is about Types? In this video…
Provably correct, asymptotically efficient, higher-order reverse-mode automatic differentiation
This keynote by Simon Peyton Jones was recorded at Haskell eXchange 2021 on 16 November 2021: Automatic differentiation is all the rage these days, largely because it is a key enabler for machine learning. But…
Research at Microsoft 2021: Collaborating for real-world change
Over the past 30 years, Microsoft Research has undergone a shift in how it approaches innovation, broadening its mission to include not only advancing the state of computing but also using technology to tackle some…