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In the news | Microsoft 365 Blog
PowerPoint AI gets an upgrade and Designer surpasses a major milestone of 1 billion slides
Let’s face it—presentations can be stressful. You have a goal and you want to be successful, and that’s when the fear, stress, and discomfort becomes real. Are you ready? Will your presentation help you land your message? Can you deliver…
In the news | Digital Trends
PowerPoint is easier than ever with Microsoft’s new A.I. tools
Microsoft is leaning in on the power of artificial intelligence to help Office 365 subscribers create beautiful PowerPoint slides. By dragging and dropping in your favorite images and the relevant text to a slide, PowerPoint Designer leverages A.I. to automatically…
In the news | VentureBeat
PowerPoint gains an AI-powered presenter coach and beefed-up design suggestions
The world’s most popular presentation program — PowerPoint — is becoming more capable this week, courtesy of AI.
In the news | MSPowerUser
Microsoft announces new PowerPoint features to help you create better presentations
A few years ago, Microsoft announced a AI feature in PowerPoint called Designer that will help users in creating better presentations. Microsoft today announced that 1 billion slides were created with Designer since launch. To celebrate this major milestone, Microsoft…
Awards | ACM SIGAI
Real World Reinforcement Learning Team honored with 2019 ACM SIGAI award
The selection committee selected the Decision Service created by the Real World Reinforcement Learning team as the winner of the inaugural 2019 ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The committee was impressed with the identification and…
Awards | ACM SIGAI
Winner of 2019 ACM SIGAI Industry Award
The selection committee for the ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pleased to announce that the Decision Service created by the Real World Reinforcement Learning Team from Microsoft, has been chosen as the winner of…
Provably efficient reinforcement learning with rich observations
| Akshay Krishnamurthy
Reinforcement learning, a machine learning paradigm for sequential decision making, has stormed into the limelight, receiving tremendous attention from both researchers and practitioners. When combined with deep learning, reinforcement learning (RL) has produced impressive empirical results, but the successes to…
What’s in a name? Using Bias to Fight Bias in Occupational Classification
| Alexey Romanov and Maria De-Arteaga
Bias in AI is a big problem. In particular, AI can compound the effects of existing societal biases: in a recruiting tool, if more men than women are software engineers, AI is likely to use that data to identify job…
Reinforcement learning for the real world with Dr. John Langford and Rafah Hosn
Episode 75, May 8, 2019- Dr. John Langford, a partner researcher in the Machine Learning group at Microsoft Research New York City, is a reinforcement learning expert who is working, in his own words, to solve machine learning. Rafah Hosn,…