Tech Showcase: Microsoft Pix
Microsoft Pix helps every photographer take better pictures. Because it incorporates AI behind the lens, it can tweak settings, select the best shots, and enhance them on the fly. It’s designed to help take the…
Tech Showcase: DeepFind: Searching within Documents to Answer Natural Language Questions
DeepFindSearching within web documents on mobile devices is difficult and unnatural: ctrl-f searches only for exact matches, and it’s hard to see the search results. DeepFind takes a step toward solving this problem by allowing…
Integrative-AI
Over the last decade, algorithmic developments coupled with increased computation and data resources have led to advances in well-defined verticals of AI such as vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and dialog technologies. However, the…
Fireside Chat with Harry Shum
Christopher Bishop has a fireside chat with Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Research group, discussing Microsoft Research’s advancements in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and security and privacy. They finish…
Tech Showcase: Custom Vision Service
This demo shows how Custom Vision Service can be applied to many AI vision applications. For example, if a client needs to build a custom image classifier, they can submit a few images of objects,…
Research in Focus: Deep Learning Research and the Future of AI
AI deep learning expert and University of Montreal Professor Yoshua Bengio talks about deep learning—what it is, how it got there, where it’s going, and how you can learn more about it. He discusses the…
Tech Showcase: Interactive Chinese Learning App
When traveling to China it’s best to know at least a bit of the language. The mobile app called Learn Chinese can help travelers enjoy a better journey. Learn Chinese teaches in an interactive way,…
Research in Focus: Machine Reading Comprehension
Deep learning techniques are helping Microsoft researchers develop literate machines: those that can read for understanding, then write well about what they know. Kaheer Suleman and Jianfeng Gao discuss the latest breakthroughs in machine reading…
Tech Showcase: Cortana, Your Personal Assistant
From ferry schedules to dinner reservations, Cortana is the digital assistant designed to help people get things done. Cortana will eventually be everywhere people need assistance—on the phone, PC, Xbox One, and other places like…
Tech Showcase: Machine Teaching Using the Platform for Interactive Concept Learning (PICL)
Building machine learning (ML) models is an involved process requiring ML experts, engineers, and labelers. The demand of models for common-sense tasks far exceeds the available “teachers” that can build them. We approach this problem…