Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions
Microsoft

Cutting the Carbon Cost of Training: A New Tool Helps NLP Models Lower Their Gas Emissions

You can reduce your model’s carbon emissions by being choosy about when and where you train it.

July 20, 20222 min read
Ethical AI 2.0: Microsoft Revises its Responsible AI Standards
Microsoft

Ethical AI 2.0: Microsoft Revises its Responsible AI Standards

Microsoft tightened the reins on both AI developers and customers.What’s new: The tech titan revised its Responsible AI Standard and restricted access to some AI capabilities accordingly.

July 13, 20222 min read
Ethical AI 2.0: Microsoft Revises its Responsible AI Standards
Microsoft

Ethical AI 2.0: Microsoft Revises its Responsible AI Standards

Microsoft tightened the reins on both AI developers and customers.What’s new: The tech titan revised its Responsible AI Standard and restricted access to some AI capabilities accordingly.

July 13, 20222 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
Microsoft

Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams
Microsoft

Meta Decentralizes AI Effort: Meta Restructures its AI Research Teams

The future of Big AI may lie with product-development teams. Meta reorganized its AI division. Henceforth, AI teams will report to departments that develop key products.

June 15, 20222 min read
Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.
Microsoft

Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.

The next killer AI application may be developed by someone who has never heard of gradient descent. A rising generation of software development platforms serves users who aren’t familiar with AI — and even programming.

March 23, 20222 min read
Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.
Microsoft

Who Needs Programming? Behind the rise of no-code AI.

The next killer AI application may be developed by someone who has never heard of gradient descent. A rising generation of software development platforms serves users who aren’t familiar with AI — and even programming.

March 23, 20222 min read
Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.
Microsoft

Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.

Collecting and annotating a dataset of facial portraits is a big job. New research shows that synthetic data can work just as well.

February 2, 20222 min read
Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.
Microsoft

Fake Faces Are Good Training Data: Synthetic data improves face recognition performance.

Collecting and annotating a dataset of facial portraits is a big job. New research shows that synthetic data can work just as well.

February 2, 20222 min read
High Accuracy at Low Power: An energy efficient method for computer vision
Microsoft

High Accuracy at Low Power: An energy efficient method for computer vision

Equipment that relies on computer vision while unplugged — mobile phones, drones, satellites, autonomous cars — need power-efficient models. A new architecture set a record for accuracy per computation.

January 26, 20222 min read
High Accuracy at Low Power: An energy efficient method for computer vision
Microsoft

High Accuracy at Low Power: An energy efficient method for computer vision

Equipment that relies on computer vision while unplugged — mobile phones, drones, satellites, autonomous cars — need power-efficient models. A new architecture set a record for accuracy per computation.

January 26, 20222 min read
Yale Song: Foundation models for vision
Microsoft

Yale Song: Foundation models for vision

Large models pretrained on immense quantities of text have been proven to provide strong foundations for solving specialized language tasks. My biggest hope for AI in 2022 is...

December 29, 20212 min read
Yale Song: Foundation models for vision
Microsoft

Yale Song: Foundation models for vision

Large models pretrained on immense quantities of text have been proven to provide strong foundations for solving specialized language tasks. My biggest hope for AI in 2022 is...

December 29, 20212 min read
Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason
Microsoft

Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason

I believe that natural language processing in 2022 will re-embrace symbolic reasoning, harmonizing it with the statistical operation of modern neural networks. Let me explain what I mean by this.

December 29, 20212 min read
Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason
Microsoft

Yoav Shoham: Language models that reason

I believe that natural language processing in 2022 will re-embrace symbolic reasoning, harmonizing it with the statistical operation of modern neural networks. Let me explain what I mean by this.

December 29, 20212 min read

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