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In the news | 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.
Research Focus: Week of June 19, 2023
In this issue: Our new Responsible AI Maturity Model; FoundWright helps “re-find” web pages; Trace-guided Inductive Synthesis of Recursive Functional Programs; a wait-free algorithm for weak reference counting; and new research on concurrency testing.
AI Frontiers: The future of causal reasoning with Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
| Ashley Llorens, Emre Kiciman, and Amit Sharma
Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma join Ashley Llorens to discuss the causal capabilities of LLMs and ongoing journeys with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in the newest episode of the Microsoft Research Podcast series, “AI Frontiers.”
REACT — A synergistic cloud-edge fusion architecture
| Srinivasan Iyengar and Venkat Padmanabhan
This research paper was accepted by the eighth ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (opens in new tab) (IoTDI), which is a premier venue on IoT. The paper describes a framework that leverages cloud resources to execute large…
In the news | 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…
In the news | 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…
In the news | Future Tense
An A.I. Translation Tool Can Help Save Dying Languages. But at What Cost?
A.I. language tools depend on data—and labor—from native speakers. Sanjib Chaudhary chanced upon StoryWeaver, a multilingual children’s storytelling platform, while searching for books he could read to his 7-year-old daughter. Chaudhary’s mother tongue is Kochila Tharu, a language with about…
Podcast: HAMS- Using Smartphones to Make Roads Safer. With Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan and Dr. Akshay Nambi
Road safety is a very serious public health issue across the world. Estimates put the traffic related death toll at approximately 1.35 million fatalities every year, and the World Health Organization ranks road injuries in the top 10 leading causes…
DoWhy evolves to independent PyWhy model to help causal inference grow
| Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
Identifying causal effects is an integral part of scientific inquiry. It helps us understand everything from educational outcomes to the effects of social policies to risk factors for diseases. Questions of cause-and-effect are also critical for the design and data-driven…