Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
Microsoft Research Blog
New Meta-learning Techniques for Neural Program Induction
Much research in AI lately focuses on extending the capabilities of deep learning architectures: moving beyond simple classification and pattern recognition into the realm of learning algorithmic tasks, such as inductive programming. Building on our…
Microsoft Research Blog
Deliberation Network: Pushing the frontiers of neural machine translation
During the Tang dynasty of China, which lasted from 618 to 907, the poet Jia Dao was known for polishing his poems over and over to make them better and better. One famous story describes…
Project
The skies epitomized
The Skies Epitomized is a series of artworks exploring the essence of the sky from the perspective of humans gazing at it. The works were created in collaboration between Maja Petrić, an artist, and Nebojša…
Project
Virus
Virus is a conceptual art installation, created by artists Neel Joshi and Asta Roseway, that explores the idea of creating an organism that is fed by the people and activity in the building. The organism…
Podcast
Hybrid Reward Architecture and the Fall of Ms. Pac-Man with Dr. Harm van Seijen
If you’ve ever watched King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters, you know what a big deal it is to beat a video arcade game that was designed not to lose. Most humans can’t even come…
Microsoft Research Blog
‘Contextual bandit’ breakthrough enables deeper personalization
News portals that simultaneously personalize every part of the landing page for every visitor and mobile health apps that adaptively tweak every part of an exercise regimen to maximize the benefit of every user are…
Publication
A Neural-Symbolic Approach to Design of CAPTCHA
Tool
Hybrid Reward Architecture
Hybrid Reward Architecture (HRA) code for the first experiment in the paper located at https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04208 (opens in new tab).
Microsoft Research Blog
Will machines one day be as creative as humans?
Recent methods in artificial intelligence enable AI software to produce rich and creative digital artifacts such as text and images painted from scratch. One technique used in creating these artifacts are generative adversarial networks (GANs).…
