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In the news | Fast Company
Microsoft will fix your sexist PowerPoint presentations with AI
A tool called PowerPoint Designer analyzes images and words to automatically suggest a handful of visually pleasing layouts—and even turn text into complex timelines—in an attempt to turn everyone into a PowerPoint ace.
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…
DoWhy – A library for causal inference
| Amit Sharma and Emre Kiciman
For decades, causal inference methods have found wide applicability in the social and biomedical sciences. As computing systems start intervening in our work and daily lives, questions of cause-and-effect are gaining importance in computer science as well. To enable widespread…
In the news | The Wall Street Journal
It’s Time for a Revolution in Investor Disclosures
Microsoft researchers have shown that numbers become much easier to grasp — and remember — when the words “to put this in perspective” are coupled with a familiar reference.