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The art of augmentation: Human intelligence and artificial intelligence working together
Hollywood loves making movies about computers going crazy, robots running riot, and technology taking over. Science fiction blockbusters with apocalyptic twists often top the box office. But have they ever made you wonder about something more serious? After all, advances…
Expanding scene and language understanding with large-scale pre-training and a unified architecture
| Hamid Palangi
Making sense of the world around us is a skill we as human beings begin to learn from an early age. Though there is still much to know about the process, we can see that people learn a lot, both…
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Artificial intelligence + finance = intelligent investment
AI model analyzes mountains of financial data to help market traders make better buy-and-sell calls. Fund managers and traders could soon be making better informed buy-and-sell market decisions – and bring in higher returns for their investor clients – with…
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More than a game: Mastering Mahjong with AI and machine learning
Microsoft researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has taught itself the intricacies of Mahjong and can now match the skills of some of the world’s top players.
The brave new world of cloud-scale systems and networking with Dr. Lidong Zhou
If you’re like me, you’re no longer amazed by how all your technologies can work for you. Rather, you’ve begun to take for granted that they simply should work for you. Instantly. All together. All the time. The fact that…
Introducing MASS – A pre-training method that outperforms BERT and GPT in sequence to sequence language generation tasks
| Xu Tan
Editor’s note: Since 2018, pre-training has without a doubt become one of the hottest research topics in Natural Language Processing (NLP). By leveraging generalized language models like the BERT, GPT and XLNet, great breakthroughs have been achieved in natural language…
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Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) leads in 2019 WMT international machine translation competition
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) has achieved eight top places in the recent machine translation challenge organized by the 2019 fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19), out of the eleven tasks it undertook. Overall, there are nineteen machine translation categories in…
New Advancements in Spoken Language Processing
| Xuedong Huang
Deep learning algorithms, supported by the availability of powerful Azure computing infrastructure and massive training data, constitutes the most significant driving force in our AI evolution journey. In the past three years, Microsoft reached several historical AI milestones being the…
Machine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational
A team of researchers from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and the Speech Dialog Research Group at Microsoft Redmond are currently leading in the Conversational Question Answering (CoQA) Challenge organized by Stanford University. In…