Spectre and Meltdown are two security vulnerabilities that affect the vast majority of CPUs in use today. CPUs, or central processing units, act as the brains of a computer, directing the functions of its other components. By targeting a feature of the CPU implementation that optimizes performance, attackers could access sensitive data previously considered inaccessible.  For example, Spectre exploits speculative execution—an aggressive strategy for increasing processing speed by postponing certain security checks. But it turns out that before the CPU […]

Welcome to AI Frontiers. All right, why don’t we just jump right in. Ece Kamar: Okay. Llorens: Okay. Kamar: Take it over. [MUSIC FADES] Llorens: All right, so I want to start at a place that I think will be close to your heart, and that is with the difference between a model and a system. But let me, let me paint the picture a little bit, right. So machine learning is a process through which we create something called […]

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In this article NEW RESEARCH Snape: Reliable and Low-Cost Computing with Mixture of Spot and On-Demand VMs To improve the utilization of computing resources, cloud providers often offer underutilized capacity  

Cloud Intelligence/AIOps blog series In the first blog post in this series, Cloud Intelligence/AIOps – Infusing AI into Cloud Computing Systems, we presented a brief overview of Microsoft’s research on Cloud Intelligence/AIOps (AIOps), which innovates AI and machine learning (ML) technologies to help design, build, and operate complex cloud platforms and services effectively and efficiently at scale. As cloud computing platforms have continued to emerge as one of the  

The emergence of increasingly capable large-scale AI models, such as the recently released GPT-4, is one of the most significant advances in computing in decades. These innovations are rapidly transforming every aspect of the value we get from technology, as demonstrated through Microsoft’s integration of GPT-4 into Bing, Edge, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, GitHub, and other offerings. More recently, Nuance has announced DAX Express, which uses a unique combination of conversational, ambient, and generative AI to automatically draft clinical notes […]

Today we’re sitting down with Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research. Peter and a number of MSR colleagues, including myself, have had the privilege of working to evaluate and experiment with GPT-4 and support its integration into Microsoft products. Peter has also deeply explored the potential application of GPT-4 in health care, where its powerful reasoning and language capabilities could make it a useful copilot for practitioners in patient interaction, managing paperwork, and many other tasks. Welcome to AI Frontiers. […]