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Look and Talk: Natural Conversations with Google Assistant

by AI Generated Robotic ContentUncategorized August 31, 2022Comments are Disabled

Posted by Tuan Anh Nguyen, Staff Software Engineer, Google Assistant, and Sourish Chaudhuri, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research In natural conversations, we don’t say people’s names every time we speak to each other. Instead, we rely on contextual signaling mechanisms to initiate conversations, and eye contact is often all it takes. Google Assistant, now available …

ML-Enhanced Code Completion Improves Developer Productivity

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Posted by Maxim Tabachnyk, Staff Software Engineer and Stoyan Nikolov, Senior Engineering Manager, Google Research The increasing complexity of code poses a key challenge to productivity in software engineering. Code completion has been an essential tool that has helped mitigate this complexity in integrated development environments (IDEs). Conventionally, code completion suggestions are implemented with rule-based …

Training Generalist Agents with Multi-Game Decision Transformers

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Posted by Winnie Xu, Student Researcher and Kuang-Huei Lee, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Current deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods can train specialist artificial agents that excel at decision-making on various individual tasks in specific environments, such as Go or StarCraft. However, little progress has been made to extend these results to generalist agents …

New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy

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As scientists push the boundaries of machine learning, the amount of time, energy, and money required to train increasingly complex neural network models is skyrocketing. A new area of artificial intelligence called analog deep learning promises faster computation with a fraction of the energy usage. Programmable resistors are the key building blocks in analog deep …

Using artificial intelligence to control digital manufacturing

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Scientists and engineers are constantly developing new materials with unique properties that can be used for 3D printing, but figuring out how to print with these materials can be a complex, costly conundrum. Often, an expert operator must use manual trial-and-error — possibly making thousands of prints — to determine ideal parameters that consistently print …

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Introducing the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative

by AI Generated Robotic ContentUncategorized August 31, 2022Comments are Disabled

Addressing and mitigating the effects of climate change requires a collective effort, bringing our strengths to bear across industry, government, academia, and civil society. As we continue to explore the role of technology to advance the art of the possible, we are launching the Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI). This community of multi-disciplinary researchers is …

Explained: How to tell if artificial intelligence is working the way we want it to

by AI Generated Robotic ContentUncategorized August 31, 2022Comments are Disabled

About a decade ago, deep-learning models started achieving superhuman results on all sorts of tasks, from beating world-champion board game players to outperforming doctors at diagnosing breast cancer. These powerful deep-learning models are usually based on artificial neural networks, which were first proposed in the 1940s and have become a popular type of machine learning. …

A technique to improve both fairness and accuracy in artificial intelligence

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For workers who use machine-learning models to help them make decisions, knowing when to trust a model’s predictions is not always an easy task, especially since these models are often so complex that their inner workings remain a mystery. Users sometimes employ a technique, known as selective regression, in which the model estimates its confidence …

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GODEL: Combining goal-oriented dialog with real-world conversations

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They make restaurant recommendations, help us pay bills, and remind us of appointments. Many people have come to rely on virtual assistants and chatbots to perform a wide range of routine tasks. But what if a single dialog agent, the technology behind these language-based apps, could perform all these tasks and then take the conversation …

Teaching AI to ask clinical questions

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Physicians often query a patient’s electronic health record for information that helps them make treatment decisions, but the cumbersome nature of these records hampers the process. Research has shown that even when a doctor has been trained to use an electronic health record (EHR), finding an answer to just one question can take, on average, …