Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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Probabilistic Machine Learning and AI
How can a machine learn from experience? Probabilistic modelling provides a mathematical framework for understanding what learning is, and has therefore emerged as one of the principal approaches for designing computer algorithms that learn from…
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Next Generation Productivity
The Productivity group focuses on maintaining Microsoft’s leadership in workplace productivity. Our group leverages recent advances in artificial intelligence, the increasing availability of data, and emerging platforms that offer low-friction ways for people to connect.…
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Robust Optimization for Non-Convex Objectives
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Video Abstract: Zo AI
Zo is a sophisticated machine conversationalist with the personality of a 22-year-old with #friendgoals. She hangs out on Kik and Facebook and is always interested in a casual conversation with her growing crowd of human…
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Video Abstract: Project Malmo – Experimentation Platform for the Next Generation of AI Research
Project Malmo is an open source AI experimentation platform that supports fundamental AI research. With the platform, Microsoft provides an experimentation environment in which promising approaches can be systematically and easily compared, and that fosters…
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Video Abstract: Microsoft Translator live
Microsoft Translator live enables users to hold translated conversations across two or more languages, with up to 100 participants participating at the same time using PowerPoint, iOS, Android, Windows and web endpoints. Businesses, retail stores,…
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Video Abstract: InstaFact—Bringing Knowledge to Office Apps
This demo shows how InstaFact brings the information and intelligence of the Satori knowledge graph into Microsoft’s productivity software. InstaFact can automatically complete factual information in the text a user is writing or can verify…
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Video Abstract: 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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Video Abstract: Human-Robot Collaboration
This demonstration uses Softbank’s Pepper robot as testbed hardware to show a set of human-collaboration activities based on Microsoft Cognitive Services and other Microsoft Research technologies. As both a research and prototype-engineering effort, this project…
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Video Abstract: 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…
