{"id":144735,"date":"1998-03-27T00:12:37","date_gmt":"1998-03-27T08:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/natural-language-computing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:40:31","slug":"general-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"msr-group","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/general-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"General Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background-grey card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card 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