Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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MIS Quarterly
Tool
gestureBot Design Kit
This gestureBot Design Kit repository contains all the information needed to build both a virtual and physical desktop companion robot. Along with other tools in the Labanotation Suite, the gestureBot can be used to create…
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Microsoft Vision Model ResNet-50: Pretrained vision model built with web-scale data
Pretrained computer vision models, combined with transfer learning, can dramatically bring down the cost and time it takes to build a model that performs a vision task, such as image classification, object detection, and image…
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Directions in ML: Taking Advantage of Randomness in Expensive Optimization Problems
Optimization is at the heart of machine learning, and gradient computation is central to many optimization techniques. Stochastic optimization, in particular, has taken center stage as the principal method of fitting many models, from deep…
Microsoft Research Blog
HEXA: Self-supervised pretraining with hard examples improves visual representations
Humans perceive the world through observing a large number of visual scenes around us and then effectively generalizing—in other words, interpreting and identifying scenes they haven’t encountered before—without heavily relying on labeled annotations for every…
Microsoft Research Blog
AAAI 2021: Accelerating the impact of artificial intelligence
The purpose of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, according to its bylaws, is twofold. The first is to promote research in the area of AI, and the second is to promote the responsible use of these types of technology. The result was a 35th AAAI Conference…
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AI and Gaming Research Summit 2021 – Fireside chat with Peter Lee and Kareem Choudhry
Fireside chat between Peter Lee (Corporate Vice-President, Research and Incubations, Microsoft) and Kareem Choudhry (Corporate Vice-President, Cloud Gaming, Microsoft)
