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MedFuzz: Exploring the robustness of LLMs on medical challenge problems
| Robert Osazuwa Ness
Medfuzz tests LLMs by breaking benchmark assumptions, exposing vulnerabilities to bolster real-world accuracy.
Empowering NGOs with generative AI in the fight against human trafficking
| Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, and Dayenne Souza
Intelligence Toolkit was built to help fight human trafficking and is applicable to a broad range of societal challenges. Learn how Microsoft researchers worked with global experts to develop generative AI tools that could help tackle urgent issues at scale.
IOM and Microsoft release first-ever differentially private synthetic dataset to counter human trafficking
Microsoft is home to a diverse team of researchers focused on supporting a healthy global society, including finding ways technology can address human rights problems affecting the most vulnerable populations around the world. With a multi-disciplinary background in human-computer interaction, data…
In the news | Data.org
Project Resolve and the Healthy Community Hub Deploy Data Science that Works for Communities
The Healthy Community Hub and Project Resolve, a multi-stakeholder collaboration that brings Microsoft Research’s social science, engineering, and computer science expertise to the table with the North Carolina CBO leaders. Microsoft’s team is building out the tool while also leveraging the…
In the news | Financial Times
Three ways to ensure health tech innovation benefits all
As digital technologies become widespread in our lives, they have enormous potential to influence health and wellbeing. To get the most out of them, we need a new form of innovation focused on those who face the toughest barriers. And…
How do you solve a problem like corruption? In this Societal Resilience case study, learn about our development of data tools that could bring new levels of transparency to public procurement data, building on collaborations with the World Bank and…
In the news | The Hill
How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working on a proposal to massively scale-up testing and contact tracing to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. This effort will involve identifying all of those infected with the coronavirus and notifying everyone…
Real-world evidence and the path from data to impact
| Darren Edge and Jonathan Larson
From the intense shock of the COVID-19 pandemic to the effects of climate change, our global society has never faced greater risk. The Societal Resilience team at Microsoft Research was established in recognition of this risk and tasked with developing open technologies that enable a scalable response in times of crisis. And just…
In the news | Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott
Dr. Peter Lee: Microsoft Research & Incubations
Kevin talks with Peter Lee about critical response scientific research, deep learning and neural networks—all related to COVID-19 and Microsoft’s growing healthcare and life sciences initiative. Listen in as they also discuss the key role that public trust plays in…