Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97
In this edition of Microsoft Research Focus, host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from…
From synthetic enterprise data evaluations to real Microsoft Copilot AI confidence
Every day, millions of knowledge workers around the world rely on Microsoft Copilot to draft documents, summarize meetings, surface relevant…
Learn the rules: The hacker mindset
For some, rules pose limitations. For others, like Microsoft Research Manager Mike Walker, they’re opportunities.
Formally verifying agent-written full-stack web apps with PDD Kit
Coding agents now ship whole features in one sitting often spanning tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of lines…
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing
Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts…
What’s Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH…
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research
The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and…
AGI Is Not Multimodal
The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture…
After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment
This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational…
Forking-Sequences — Part II: Multi-Horizon Forecast Ensembling with Reduced Volatility
Based on: Potosnak, W., Wolff, M., Cao, M., Ma, R., Konstantinova, T., Efimov, D., Mahoney, M.W., Oreshkin, B., & Olivares,…