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In the news | Yahoo Finance
Big changes are coming to AI in 2025: Microsoft
According to Ashley Llorens, corporate vice president and managing director at Microsoft Research, AI models will soon be able to handle far more complex tasks, such as triaging customer requests or tracking employee expenses. Additionally, AI will become increasingly energy…
In the news | AI Magazine
AI3C: Accelerating AI innovation in the healthcare industry
Leading US health, educational, and research organisations have come together with the creation of a group aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence innovation and adoption in healthcare, Microsoft has announced.
In the news | MedCity News
New coalition aims to accelerate responsible AI innovation to transform healthcare
Leading U.S. health, educational and research organizations have come together with the creation of a group aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence innovation and adoption in healthcare, Microsoft announced Thursday. The Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Coalition (AI3C) will leverage the collective…
In the news | Trend Magazine, PEW Charitable Trusts
Machines Are Learning, Too—But Not Like Us
Despite amazing progress in our understanding of the brain and how it works, we have yet to develop a rigorous scientific understanding of how we translate experience into knowledge—in other words, how we learn. And even as we continue to…
In the news | Science Rules! with Bill Nye
Listen Now Podcast: Machine Smarts
What's intelligence? Ashley Llorens, Chief of the Intelligent Systems Center at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, has a good idea. He joins us to talk about intelligence of the human-type and the machine-type, and what it will take for machines…
In the news | The PEW Charitable Trust
Scientists at Work: Teaching Robots to Think
Will robots take our jobs? They’ll need a key human skill first—the ability to think. To find out just how near such a future is, we visited Ashley J. Llorens, chief of the Intelligent Systems Center at the Johns Hopkins…
Awards | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2018 Young Alumni Achievement Award
For exceptional leadership in diversity and changing the face of engineering while leading research in machine learning, robotics and autonomous systems, and applied neuroscience.