JOSH BENALOH: Welcome to Intern Insights, a Microsoft Research Podcast featuring brilliant students who are contributing to the research and advances at Microsoft as part of the renowned internship program at Microsoft Research. [MUSIC FADES] I’m Dr. Josh Benaloh, a senior cryptographer here at Microsoft Research, and I’m talking today with two of our finest interns: Anunay Kulshrestha and Karan Newatia, who are working with me on a project called ElectionGuard, a free, open-source toolkit that allows voters to check […]

Retrosynthesis analysis is a critical task in organic chemistry and central to many important industries. It primarily involves decomposing a target molecule into commercially available molecules step by step. Since synthesis strategies can be quite diverse and strategic, retrosynthesis planning with expert knowledge has long been considered an “art.” Recently, machine learning-based approaches have achieved promising results on this task, particularly in single-step retrosynthesis prediction. In retrosynthesis, a molecule can be represented as either a 2D graph or a 1D […]

In this article In the realm of AI, the new frontier isn’t confined to a singular form of expression; fast-paced developments are happening at the juncture of multiple modalities. Multimodal AI systems that can analyze, synthesize, and generate across text, images,  

This blog post is a part of a series exploring our research in privacy, security, and cryptography. For the previous post, see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/research-trends-in-privacy-security-and-cryptography. While AI has the potential to massively increase productivity, this power can be used equally well for malicious purposes, for example, to automate the creation of sophisticated scam messages. In this post, we explore threats AI can pose for online communication ecosystems and outline a high-level approach to mitigating  

[MUSIC FADES] All right, so, Sriram, let’s dive right in. I think it’s fairly obvious for me to say at this point that ChatGPT—and generative AI more broadly—is a worldwide phenomenon. But what’s so striking to me about this is the way that so many people around the world can pick up the technology and use it in their context, in their own way. I was on a panel discussion a few weeks ago where I saw a comedian discover […]