Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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Tech Showcase: Customizing Speech Recognition for Higher Accuracy Transcriptions
Two of the most important components of speech recognition systems are the acoustic model and the language model. Those models behind Microsoft’s speech recognition engine have been optimized for certain usage scenarios, such as interacting…
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AI for Accessibility: Augmenting Sensory Capabilities with Intelligent Technology
Advances in AI technologies have important ramifications for the development of accessible technologies. These technologies can augment the capabilities of people with sensory disabilities, enabling new and empowering experiences. In this session, we will present…
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Research in Focus: Private AI
For AI to achieve its potential, it requires access to large amounts of often sensitive data, which can pose threats to our privacy. This session, featuring Rich Caruana and Kristin Lauter of Microsoft and Jung…
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Research in Focus: Conversational agents
Microsoft’s Lucy Vanderwende and Bill Dolan and Ohio State’s Alan Ritter talk about deep learning algorithms that help machines converse in lifelike ways, drawing from social media conversations. They talk about training AI to ask…
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Tech Showcase: InfoBots: AI-Powered Conversational QnA Systems
As we move into the world of messaging apps, bots and botification of content, users are starting to move from keyword searches to relying on bots and assistants for their information seeking needs. Bing has…
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Tech Showcase: Bing Visual Search
Visual search, AKA search by image, is a new way of searching for information using an image or part of an image as the query. Similar to text search, which connects keyword queries to knowledge…
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Conversational Systems in the Era of Deep Learning and Big Data
Recent research in recurrent neural models, combined with the availability of massive amounts of dialog data, have together spurred the development of a new generation of conversational systems. Where past approaches focused on task-oriented dialog…
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Tech Showcase: Deep Artistic Style Transfer: From Images to Videos
This demo demonstrates several applications of Microsoft’s recent work in artistic style transfer for images and videos. One technology, called StyleBank, provides an explicit representation for visual styles with a feedforward deep network that can…
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Research in Focus: Transforming Machine Learning and Optimization Through Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is in its infancy, but Microsoft’s Krysta Svore and Nathan Wiebe talk about quantum techniques as applied to AI challenges. Quantum computing can leverage quantum effects, such as entanglement and quantum interference, to…
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Keynote: AI in the Open World
Fielding AI solutions in the open world requires systems to grapple with incompleteness and uncertainty. This session will address several promising areas of research in open world AI, including enhancing robustness via leveraging algorithmic portfolios,…
