Ada
Ada is the first first architectural pavilion project to incorporate artificial intelligence, Ada’s knitted light immerses visitors in a responsive and interactive glow of photoluminescence driven by individual and collective expression data gathered and housed…
The making of Ada, Microsoft’s latest Artist in Residence installation
Ada, a two-story structure made of 3D printed nodes, fiberglass rods and fabric digitally knit with photoluminescent yarn, uses AI to translate anonymized data about facial expressions, noise, voice tones and language into a choreographed…
Efficient and Scalable Deep Learning
In deep learning, researchers keep gaining higher performance by using larger models. However, there are two obstacles blocking the community to build larger models: (1) training larger models is more time-consuming, which slows down model…
Data science and ML for human well-being with Jina Suh
Using technology to help us improve our health is nothing new: a quick web search returns hundreds of apps and devices claiming to help us get fit, quit smoking, master anxiety or just “find our…
Expanding scene and language understanding with large-scale pre-training and a unified architecture
Making sense of the world around us is a skill we as human beings begin to learn from an early age. Though there is still much to know about the process, we can see that…
Speakeasy
Knowledge bases, such as Bing and Google knowledge graphs, contain millions of entities (people, places, etc.) and billions of facts about them. While much is known about entities, little is known about the actions these…
Towards Using Batch Reinforcement Learning to Identify Treatment Options in Healthcare
Reinforcement Learning Day 2019: Towards Using Batch Reinforcement Learning to Identify Treatment Options in Healthcare