Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Big Tech players have been investing in partnerships with large healthcare providers on AI endeavors for several years now. According to both sides in one such collaboration, the resulting synergy offers “immense potential” to improve…
Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, was tasked with assessing the implications of GPT-4 for medicine. And he thinks it could increase efficiency and even empathy in the healthcare system, as well as boost biomedical…
Chatbots are computer programs with which one can have a conversation. In this article, the authors describe how the GPT-4 chatbot, which has been given a general education, could affect the practice of medicine.
Our paper, Pond: CXL-Based Memory Pooling Systems for Cloud Platforms, was selected as a distinguished paper by the ASPLOS’23 organizers. Congrats to Daniel S. Berger and Pantea Zardoshti .
AI is changing the way we work and live. But with climate change impacting seasonal temperatures and rainfalls around the world, can it help make food production more sustainable?
Fresh on the heels of GPT-4’s public release, a team of Microsoft AI scientists published a research paper claiming the OpenAI language model — which powers Microsoft’s now somewhat lobotomized Bing AI — shows “sparks”…
“The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed showing sparks of artificial general intelligence.” Those are the words of a team of researchers at Microsoft (Sébastien Bubeck,…
Following on from its success among developers with Copilot, GitHub has announced the next stage, Copilot X, which is designed to expand beyond the realms of code auto-completion. …
GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, the Microsoft-owned…
Stephen McAleese, at Less Wrong, used scaling rules and formulas to try to predict the performance of GPT-4. He underpredicted the capabilities of GPT-4. However, he was not widely wrong. GPT-4 came out earlier than he…