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Episode 1
Previously aired on January 30, 2024
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Episode 2
Previously aired on March 5, 2024
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Episode 3
June 4, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PT
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September 3, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PT
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Episode 2
Previously aired on March 5, 2024
Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever, with the latest advances in AI transforming the way we all live, work, and think.
In this episode, we shared how AI is transforming health care and the natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and the continuing evolution of foundational AI technologies.
Agenda
| Sessions | Speakers | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | Chris Bishop, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science | The Revolution in Scientific Discovery Chris Bishop shared the vision for how AI for science will leverage AI to model and predict natural phenomena, including the exciting real-world progress being made by the team. |
| Panel Discussion | Rianne van den Berg, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science Tian Xie, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science Tristan Naumann, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures Kristen Severson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England Alex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England Bonnie Kruft, Partner Deputy Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science (Host) | Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI Microsoft researchers shared their advancements in the fields of foundations models, drug discovery, material design and machine learning. They will highlight how deep learning is transforming the natural sciences. |
| Lightning Talk 1 | Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers | What's new in AutoGen? Chi Wang discussed the latest updates on AutoGen—the multi-agent framework for next generation AI applications. This includes milestones achieved, community feedback, new exciting features, and ongoing research and challenges. |
| Lightning Talk 2 | Lev Tankelevitch, Senior Behavioral Science Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge | The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI Lev Tankelevitch explored how metacognition—the psychological capacity to monitor and regulate one's cognitive processes—provides a valuable perspective for comprehending and addressing the usability challenges of generative AI systems around prompting, assessing and relying on outputs, and workflow optimization. |
| Lightning Talk 3 | Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal | Getting Modular with Language Models: Building and Reusing a Library of Experts for Task Generalization Alessandro Sordoni shared recent efforts on building and re-using large collections of expert language models to improve zero-shot and few-shot generalization to unseen tasks. |
| Lightning Talk 4 | Naoto Usuyama, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures | GigaPath: Foundation Model for Digital Pathology Naoto Usuyama proposed GigaPath, a novel approach for training large vision transformers for gigapixel pathology images, utilizing a diverse real-world cancer patient dataset, with the goal of laying a foundation for cancer pathology AI. |
| Lightning Talk 5 | Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond Vanessa Gathecha, Research and Policy Manager, Baraza Media Lab | Generative AI and Plural Governance: Mitigating Challenges and Surfacing Opportunities Madeleine Daepp talked about the potential impacts and challenges of generative AI in a year with over 70 major global elections, and AI and Society Fellow Vanessa Gathecha discussed her work on disinformation in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Closing remarks and announcements | Ashley Llorens, CVP, Microsoft Research |
Sessions : Keynote
Speakers : Chris Bishop, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Description : The Revolution in Scientific Discovery
Chris Bishop shared the vision for how AI for science will leverage AI to model and predict natural phenomena, including the exciting real-world progress being made by the team. Sessions : Panel Discussion Speakers : Rianne van den Berg, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tian Xie, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tristan Naumann, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures
Kristen Severson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Alex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Bonnie Kruft, Partner Deputy Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science (Host) Description : Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI
Microsoft researchers shared their advancements in the fields of foundations models, drug discovery, material design and machine learning. They will highlight how deep learning is transforming the natural sciences. Sessions : Lightning Talk 1 Speakers : Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Description : What's new in AutoGen?
Chi Wang discussed the latest updates on AutoGen—the multi-agent framework for next generation AI applications. This includes milestones achieved, community feedback, new exciting features, and ongoing research and challenges. Sessions : Lightning Talk 2 Speakers : Lev Tankelevitch, Senior Behavioral Science Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Description : The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
Lev Tankelevitch explored how metacognition—the psychological capacity to monitor and regulate one's cognitive processes—provides a valuable perspective for comprehending and addressing the usability challenges of generative AI systems around prompting, assessing and relying on outputs, and workflow optimization. Sessions : Lightning Talk 3 Speakers : Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal Description : Getting Modular with Language Models: Building and Reusing a Library of Experts for Task Generalization
Alessandro Sordoni shared recent efforts on building and re-using large collections of expert language models to improve zero-shot and few-shot generalization to unseen tasks. Sessions : Lightning Talk 4 Speakers : Naoto Usuyama, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures Description : GigaPath: Foundation Model for Digital Pathology
Naoto Usuyama proposed GigaPath, a novel approach for training large vision transformers for gigapixel pathology images, utilizing a diverse real-world cancer patient dataset, with the goal of laying a foundation for cancer pathology AI. Sessions : Lightning Talk 5 Speakers : Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Vanessa Gathecha, Research and Policy Manager, Baraza Media Lab Description : Generative AI and Plural Governance: Mitigating Challenges and Surfacing Opportunities
Madeleine Daepp talked about the potential impacts and challenges of generative AI in a year with over 70 major global elections, and AI and Society Fellow Vanessa Gathecha discussed her work on disinformation in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sessions : Closing remarks and announcements Speakers : Ashley Llorens, CVP, Microsoft Research Description :
Chris Bishop shared the vision for how AI for science will leverage AI to model and predict natural phenomena, including the exciting real-world progress being made by the team. Sessions : Panel Discussion Speakers : Rianne van den Berg, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tian Xie, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tristan Naumann, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures
Kristen Severson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Alex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Bonnie Kruft, Partner Deputy Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science (Host) Description : Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI
Microsoft researchers shared their advancements in the fields of foundations models, drug discovery, material design and machine learning. They will highlight how deep learning is transforming the natural sciences. Sessions : Lightning Talk 1 Speakers : Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Description : What's new in AutoGen?
Chi Wang discussed the latest updates on AutoGen—the multi-agent framework for next generation AI applications. This includes milestones achieved, community feedback, new exciting features, and ongoing research and challenges. Sessions : Lightning Talk 2 Speakers : Lev Tankelevitch, Senior Behavioral Science Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Description : The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
Lev Tankelevitch explored how metacognition—the psychological capacity to monitor and regulate one's cognitive processes—provides a valuable perspective for comprehending and addressing the usability challenges of generative AI systems around prompting, assessing and relying on outputs, and workflow optimization. Sessions : Lightning Talk 3 Speakers : Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal Description : Getting Modular with Language Models: Building and Reusing a Library of Experts for Task Generalization
Alessandro Sordoni shared recent efforts on building and re-using large collections of expert language models to improve zero-shot and few-shot generalization to unseen tasks. Sessions : Lightning Talk 4 Speakers : Naoto Usuyama, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures Description : GigaPath: Foundation Model for Digital Pathology
Naoto Usuyama proposed GigaPath, a novel approach for training large vision transformers for gigapixel pathology images, utilizing a diverse real-world cancer patient dataset, with the goal of laying a foundation for cancer pathology AI. Sessions : Lightning Talk 5 Speakers : Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Vanessa Gathecha, Research and Policy Manager, Baraza Media Lab Description : Generative AI and Plural Governance: Mitigating Challenges and Surfacing Opportunities
Madeleine Daepp talked about the potential impacts and challenges of generative AI in a year with over 70 major global elections, and AI and Society Fellow Vanessa Gathecha discussed her work on disinformation in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sessions : Closing remarks and announcements Speakers : Ashley Llorens, CVP, Microsoft Research Description :
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Sessions : Keynote
Speakers : Chris Bishop, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Description : The Revolution in Scientific Discovery
Chris Bishop shared the vision for how AI for science will leverage AI to model and predict natural phenomena, including the exciting real-world progress being made by the team. Sessions : Panel Discussion Speakers : Rianne van den Berg, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tian Xie, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tristan Naumann, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures
Kristen Severson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Alex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Bonnie Kruft, Partner Deputy Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science (Host) Description : Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI
Microsoft researchers shared their advancements in the fields of foundations models, drug discovery, material design and machine learning. They will highlight how deep learning is transforming the natural sciences. Sessions : Lightning Talk 1 Speakers : Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Description : What's new in AutoGen?
Chi Wang discussed the latest updates on AutoGen—the multi-agent framework for next generation AI applications. This includes milestones achieved, community feedback, new exciting features, and ongoing research and challenges. Sessions : Lightning Talk 2 Speakers : Lev Tankelevitch, Senior Behavioral Science Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Description : The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
Lev Tankelevitch explored how metacognition—the psychological capacity to monitor and regulate one's cognitive processes—provides a valuable perspective for comprehending and addressing the usability challenges of generative AI systems around prompting, assessing and relying on outputs, and workflow optimization. Sessions : Lightning Talk 3 Speakers : Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal Description : Getting Modular with Language Models: Building and Reusing a Library of Experts for Task Generalization
Alessandro Sordoni shared recent efforts on building and re-using large collections of expert language models to improve zero-shot and few-shot generalization to unseen tasks. Sessions : Lightning Talk 4 Speakers : Naoto Usuyama, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures Description : GigaPath: Foundation Model for Digital Pathology
Naoto Usuyama proposed GigaPath, a novel approach for training large vision transformers for gigapixel pathology images, utilizing a diverse real-world cancer patient dataset, with the goal of laying a foundation for cancer pathology AI. Sessions : Lightning Talk 5 Speakers : Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Vanessa Gathecha, Research and Policy Manager, Baraza Media Lab Description : Generative AI and Plural Governance: Mitigating Challenges and Surfacing Opportunities
Madeleine Daepp talked about the potential impacts and challenges of generative AI in a year with over 70 major global elections, and AI and Society Fellow Vanessa Gathecha discussed her work on disinformation in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sessions : Closing remarks and announcements Speakers : Ashley Llorens, CVP, Microsoft Research Description :
Chris Bishop shared the vision for how AI for science will leverage AI to model and predict natural phenomena, including the exciting real-world progress being made by the team. Sessions : Panel Discussion Speakers : Rianne van den Berg, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tian Xie, Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tristan Naumann, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures
Kristen Severson, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Alex Lu, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England
Bonnie Kruft, Partner Deputy Director, Microsoft Research AI4Science (Host) Description : Transforming the Natural Sciences with AI
Microsoft researchers shared their advancements in the fields of foundations models, drug discovery, material design and machine learning. They will highlight how deep learning is transforming the natural sciences. Sessions : Lightning Talk 1 Speakers : Chi Wang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Description : What's new in AutoGen?
Chi Wang discussed the latest updates on AutoGen—the multi-agent framework for next generation AI applications. This includes milestones achieved, community feedback, new exciting features, and ongoing research and challenges. Sessions : Lightning Talk 2 Speakers : Lev Tankelevitch, Senior Behavioral Science Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Description : The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI
Lev Tankelevitch explored how metacognition—the psychological capacity to monitor and regulate one's cognitive processes—provides a valuable perspective for comprehending and addressing the usability challenges of generative AI systems around prompting, assessing and relying on outputs, and workflow optimization. Sessions : Lightning Talk 3 Speakers : Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal Description : Getting Modular with Language Models: Building and Reusing a Library of Experts for Task Generalization
Alessandro Sordoni shared recent efforts on building and re-using large collections of expert language models to improve zero-shot and few-shot generalization to unseen tasks. Sessions : Lightning Talk 4 Speakers : Naoto Usuyama, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Health Futures Description : GigaPath: Foundation Model for Digital Pathology
Naoto Usuyama proposed GigaPath, a novel approach for training large vision transformers for gigapixel pathology images, utilizing a diverse real-world cancer patient dataset, with the goal of laying a foundation for cancer pathology AI. Sessions : Lightning Talk 5 Speakers : Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Redmond
Vanessa Gathecha, Research and Policy Manager, Baraza Media Lab Description : Generative AI and Plural Governance: Mitigating Challenges and Surfacing Opportunities
Madeleine Daepp talked about the potential impacts and challenges of generative AI in a year with over 70 major global elections, and AI and Society Fellow Vanessa Gathecha discussed her work on disinformation in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sessions : Closing remarks and announcements Speakers : Ashley Llorens, CVP, Microsoft Research Description :
Featured Speakers
Chris Bishop
Technical Fellow and Director
Microsoft Research AI4Science
Bonnie Kruft
Partner Deputy Director
Microsoft Research AI4Science
Chi Wang
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research AI Frontiers
Kristen Severson
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research New England
Naoto Usuyama
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research Health Futures
Madeleine Daepp
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research Redmond
Alessandro Sordoni
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research Montreal
Alex Lu
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research New England
Rianne van den Berg
Principal Research Manager
Microsoft Research AI4Science
Tristan Naumann
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research Health Futures
Lev Tankelevitch
Senior Behavioral Science Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge
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Vanessa Gathecha
Research and Policy Manager
Baraza Media Lab
Tian Xie
Principal Research Manager
Microsoft Research AI4Science
Ashley Llorens
CVP, Microsoft Research
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