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 […]

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 An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability In many fields, practitioners focus on inference (precisely estimating  

By MSR Editor  Compilation is an important process in program development, in which a program called a compiler translates source code written in a programming language into machine code executable on computer hardware. As AI technology and large-scale AI models become increasingly prevalent across the digital world, their unique characteristics are posing new challenges for compilers. As AI models have evolved from early versions like recurrent neural networks (RNN) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) to more recent iterations like Transformer, […]

Cloud Intelligence/AIOps blog series, part 4 In the previous posts in this series, we introduced our research vision for Cloud Intelligence/AIOps (part 1) and how advanced AI can help design, build, and manage large-scale cloud platforms effectively and efficiently; we looked at solutions that are making many aspects of