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Pain Points in Black and White: Medical AI system predicts knee pain from Black patients.

A model designed to assess medical patients’ pain levels matched the patients’ own reports better than doctors’ estimates did — when the patients were Black.

February 3, 20211 min read
Adversarial Helper: Adversarial learning can improve vision and NLP.
Microsoft

Adversarial Helper: Adversarial learning can improve vision and NLP.

Models that learn relationships between images and words are gaining a higher profile. New research shows that adversarial learning, usually a way to make models robust to deliberately misleading inputs, can boost vision-and-language performance.

January 20, 20212 min read
Adversarial Helper: Adversarial learning can improve vision and NLP.
Microsoft

Adversarial Helper: Adversarial learning can improve vision and NLP.

Models that learn relationships between images and words are gaining a higher profile. New research shows that adversarial learning, usually a way to make models robust to deliberately misleading inputs, can boost vision-and-language performance.

January 20, 20212 min read
Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
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Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read
Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
Microsoft

Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read
Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.
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Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.

Two years after it pointed a new direction for language models, Bert still hovers near the top of several natural language processing leaderboards. A new study considers whether Bert simply excels at tracking word order or or learns something closer to common sense.

September 16, 20202 min read
Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.
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Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.

An open source library could spawn trillion-parameter neural networks and help small-time developers build big-league models. Microsoft upgraded DeepSpeed, a library that accelerates the PyTorch deep learning framework.

September 16, 20202 min read
Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.
Microsoft

Toward 1 Trillion Parameters: Microsoft upgrades its DeepSpeed optimization library.

An open source library could spawn trillion-parameter neural networks and help small-time developers build big-league models. Microsoft upgraded DeepSpeed, a library that accelerates the PyTorch deep learning framework.

September 16, 20202 min read
Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.
Microsoft

Do Muppets Have Common Sense?: The Bert NLP model scores high on common sense test.

Two years after it pointed a new direction for language models, Bert still hovers near the top of several natural language processing leaderboards. A new study considers whether Bert simply excels at tracking word order or or learns something closer to common sense.

September 16, 20202 min read
Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.
Microsoft

Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.

Three of the biggest AI vendors pledged to stop providing face recognition services to police — but other companies continue to serve the law-enforcement market.

June 24, 20201 min read
Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.
Microsoft

Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.

Baidu backed out of a U.S.-led effort to promote ethics in AI, leaving the project without a Chinese presence. The Beijing-based search giant withdrew from the Partnership on AI, a consortium that promotes cooperation on issues like digital privacy and algorithmic bias.

June 24, 20201 min read
Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.
Microsoft

Baidu Leaves Partnership on AI: Chinese tech giant exits a consortium on AI bias and privacy.

Baidu backed out of a U.S.-led effort to promote ethics in AI, leaving the project without a Chinese presence. The Beijing-based search giant withdrew from the Partnership on AI, a consortium that promotes cooperation on issues like digital privacy and algorithmic bias.

June 24, 20201 min read
Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.
Microsoft

Tech Giants Face Off With Police: Amazon and Microsoft halt face recognition for police.

Three of the biggest AI vendors pledged to stop providing face recognition services to police — but other companies continue to serve the law-enforcement market.

June 24, 20201 min read
Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.
Microsoft

Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.

Natural language processing lately has come to resemble an arms race, as the big AI companies build models that encompass ever larger numbers of parameters. Microsoft recently held the record — but not for long.

June 17, 20202 min read
Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.
Microsoft

Bigger is Better: A research summary of Microsoft's Turing-NLG language model.

Natural language processing lately has come to resemble an arms race, as the big AI companies build models that encompass ever larger numbers of parameters. Microsoft recently held the record — but not for long.

June 17, 20202 min read

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