Great scientific achievements cannot be made by trial and error alone. Every launch in the space program is underpinned by centuries of fundamental research in aerodynamics, propulsion, and celestial bodies. In the same way, when it comes to building large-scale AI systems, fundamental research forms the theoretical insights that drastically reduce the amount of trial and error necessary and can prove very cost-effective.  In this post, we relay how our fundamental research enabled us, for the first time, to tune […]

A nice collection of often useful awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software. Admin Panels Libraries for administrative interfaces. ajenti – The admin panel your servers deserve. django-grappelli – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface. django-jet – Modern responsive template for the Django admin interface with improved functionality. django-suit – Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use). django-xadmin – Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies. flask-admin – Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask. […]

Figure 1: COMPASS is a general-purpose pretraining pipeline, which is trained on multimodal data, including RGB images, depth and optical flow. The pretrained COMPASS model can  

As the pandemic overburdens medical facilities and clinicians become increasingly overworked, the ability to make quick decisions on providing the best possible treatment is even more critical. In urgent health situations, such decisions can mean life or death. However, certain treatment protocols can pose a considerable risk  

Editor’s note: This year in review of responsible AI research was compiled by Aether, a Microsoft cross-company initiative on AI Ethics and Effects in Engineering and Research, as outreach from their commitment to advancing the practice of human-centered responsible AI. Although many of the papers’ authors are participants in Aether, the research presented here expands beyond, encompassing work from across Microsoft, as well as  

In the last three years, the largest trained dense models have increased in size by over 1,000 times, from a few hundred million parameters to over 500 billion parameters in  

From manufacturing and logistics to agriculture and transportation, the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in the last decade  

Neural Text-to-Speech—along with recent milestones in computer vision and question answering—is part of a larger Azure AI mission to provide relevant, meaningful AI solutions and services that work better for people because they better capture how people learn and work—with improved vision, knowledge understanding, and speech capabilities. At the center of these efforts is XYZ-code, a joint representation of three cognitive attributes: monolingual text (X), audio or visual sensory signals (Y), and multilingual (Z). For more information about these efforts, […]