This talk will provide a brief overview of digital mental health, which has used common technologies such as web and mobile apps to support behaviors aimed at reducing mental health symptoms. While the potential effectiveness…
Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have typically shown that AI systems are good at solving specific tasks that have a well-defined goal, such as Speech Recognition, Image Captioning, Games like Poker/Go/Jeopardy, among others. However, as…
Tuberculosis (TB) is a completely curable disease, yet over 1 million people die from TB every year. One of the major challenges is to ensure that patients complete a full six-month course of antibiotics, which…
An introduction to ethnography for Artificial Intelligence as well as conversational analysis and its relevance to AI.
Machine learning is increasingly being adopted by various domains: governments, credit, recruiting, advertising, and many others. Fairness and equality are critical aspects, especially in light of anti-discriminatory laws in these domains. Opaque machine learning models:…
This project explores the impact of different forms of money and financial technologies on financial inclusion for low and variable income communities. It includes a number of interrelated initiatives from understanding the impact of digital money…
Microsoft Research India started project MEC to understand the adoption of quality educational content in India and how technology can help uplift this adoption rate. The platform saw great adoption in India, Middle East, and…
