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Microsoft researchers discuss the challenges and opportunities of making AI more inclusive and impactful for everyone—from data that represents a broader range of communities and cultures to novel use cases for AI that are globally relevant.
Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
| Kalika Bali et Gretchen Huizinga
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource…
Dans l’actualité | LinkedIn
Village by village, creating the building blocks for AI tools
Indian social impact organization, Karya, uses Microsoft AI to provide their employees with educational tools to earn and learn: https://msft.it/6044c3no2
Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content
| Akshay Nambi et Tanuja Ganu
Teachers are the backbone of any educational system. They are not just educators; they are indispensable navigators, mentors, and leaders. Teachers around the world face many challenges, which vary from country to country or even within a city or town.…
Dans l’actualité | TIME
The Workers Behind AI Rarely See Its Rewards. This Indian Startup Wants to Fix That
In a TIME cover story, Kalika Bali, linguist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke to Billy Perrigo about the importance of designing AI technology without language barriers. Learn about our innovative work on ethical data collection with Karya.
Dans l’actualité | The Economic Times
Microsoft Research India is creating tools to help preserve fast disappearing languages
In 2010, Bo, a language of the Andaman Islands that is at least 65,000 years old became extinct when the only person who spoke this pre-Neolithic tongue died. This isn’t an isolated case. Every two weeks, a language is lost…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Stories India
Microsoft Research project helps languages survive — and thrive
A woman named Boa Sr was the last link to a 65,000-year-old pre-Neolithic culture on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. When she died in 2010, the Bo language died, too, becoming extinct. If that sounds like an isolated…
Dans l’actualité | Microsoft Research India Podcast
Podcast: Dependable IoT- Making data from IoT devices dependable and trustworthy for good decision making
The Internet of Things has been around for a few years now and many businesses and organizations depend on data from these systems to make critical decisions. At the same time, it is also well recognized that this data- even…
Dans l’actualité | Internet of Things Show
Internet of Things Show – Improving IoT sensors data quality with Verified Telemetry
Data is the new oil. Customers are increasingly using sensors to collect data and use that to make critical business decisions. The quality of data drives the quality of decision and outcomes. Verified Telemetry is a new capability offered as…