Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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Microsoft Research 2019 reflection—a year of progress on technology’s toughest challenges
Research is about achieving long-term goals, often through incremental progress. As the year comes to an end, it’s a good time to step back and reflect on the work that researchers at Microsoft and their…
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Finding the best learning targets automatically: Fully Parameterized Quantile Function for distributional RL
Reinforcement learning has achieved great success in game scenarios, with RL agents beating human competitors in such games as Go and poker. Distributional reinforcement learning, in particular, has proven to be an effective approach for…
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Making machines recognize and transcribe conversations in meetings using audio and video
The ability to perceive communication signals and make sense of them played an essential role in the evolution of human intelligence. Computing technology is following the same trajectory. Now, computer vision and automatic speech recognition…
