Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
A new type of artificial-intelligence technology that cuts the time cancer patients must wait before starting radiotherapy is to be offered at cost price to all NHS trusts in England. It helps doctors calculate where…
Microsoft has enlisted Barclays to help it test the world’s first analog optical computer that uses photons and electrons to process continuous value data.
There’s an old saying: When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Sometimes referred to as “the law of the instrument,” that hammer-and-nail idea is a common pitfall…
The National Health Service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is now able to plan radiotherapy treatments faster than in the past, thanks to AI advances that are cutting wait times. As the NHS approaches its…
This American Life’s David Kestenbaum (NPR) interviewed Peter Lee, Sébastien Bubeck, Ece Kamar, and Ronen Eldan about their experiments with GPT-4 and the emerging capabilities of large language models, using examples from the “Sparks” paper.
Recent advances in AI have sparked both wonder and anxiety as we contemplate its transformative potential. AI holds enormous promise to enrich our lives, but this anticipation comes intertwined with apprehensions about the challenges and…
Best Paper Award at the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (opens in new tab) for “Trust Region Bounds for Decentralized PPO Under Non-stationarity” by Mingfei Sun, Sam Devlin, Jacob Beck, Katja Hofmann…
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined…
“Don’t ask what computers can do, ask what they should do.” That is the title of the chapter on AI and ethics in a book I coauthored in 2019. At the time, we wrote that…
