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Advances in run-time strategies for next-generation foundation models
| Eric Horvitz, Harsha Nori, and Naoto Usuyama
Discover the most effective run-time strategies on the OpenAI o1-preview model, improving accuracy in medical language tasks.
In the news | LinkedIn
Microsoft gives $5M to UW Medicine to use AI to accelerate response to next pandemic (update)
David Baker received the Nobel Prize today for breakthrough work in protein design, on creating new proteins to serve as novel therapies and vaccines. Five years ago, we made the decision to go all-in with David. The goal was to…
Microsoft at CHI 2024: Innovations in human-centered design
From immersive virtual experiences to interactive design tools, Microsoft Research is at the frontier of exploring how people engage with technology. Discover our latest breakthroughs in human-computer interaction research at CHI 2024.
Steering at the Frontier: Extending the Power of Prompting
| Eric Horvitz, Harsha Nori, and Yin Tat Lee
We’re seeing exciting capabilities of frontier foundation models, including intriguing powers of abstraction, generalization, and composition across numerous areas of knowledge and expertise. Even seasoned AI researchers have been impressed with the ability to steer the models with straightforward, zero-shot prompts. Beyond…
In the news | The Rise of the AI Co-Pilot: Lessons for Design from Aviation and Beyond
The Rise of the AI Co-Pilot
In the news | Microsoft Unlocked
AI Anthology
Recent advances in AI have sparked both wonder and anxiety as we contemplate its transformative potential. AI holds enormous promise to enrich our lives, but this anticipation comes intertwined with apprehensions about the challenges and risks that might emerge. To…
In the news | Fortune
Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer, one of the world’s leading A.I. experts, doesn’t think a 6 month pause will fix A.I.—but has some ideas of how to safeguard it
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft’s first Chief Scientific Officer and one of the leading voices within the rapidly-evolving sector of artificial intelligence, has spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to be human.
Awards | Web Science Trust
Scott Counts, Eric Horvitz awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award
The Web Science Trust (WST) awarded the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award to Mumum De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts and Eric Horvitz the authors of “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”. The award…
In the news | EPFL News
Pass me the pastries, please
A new global study by researchers from EPFL, the University of Fribourg, and Microsoft Research has found there was an overall surge in high calorie foods such as pastries, bread and pies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,…