The Computer Simulation of People
The computer simulation of people is a grand challenge problem with potentially profound impact across many disciplines. In the field of computer graphics, it is especially relevant to the animation of realistic human characters for…
Learning from Rational(*) Behavior
Machine Learning is increasingly becoming a technology that directly interacts with human users. In fact, much of the Big Data we collect today are the decisions that people make when they use the systems we…
Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence, Agglomerative Intelligence, Adaptive Intelligence, and Ambient I
The building of a computer that can intelligently carry out tasks that require “human level intelligence” has been a goal for computer scientists since the 1950’s. Since that time, tasks that were considered to exhibit…
At Microsoft Research Asia, artificial intelligence is informing, and informed by, the human experience
Posted by Allison Linn When most people use automated speech recognition technology today, it’s because they have a task that needs to get done: A person to call, directions to get, a quick text to…