Artificial Intelligence – Microsoft Perspectives

Speaker: Evelyne Viegas Given the investment and evidence of progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the last five years, some suggest that it is merely a matter of time until AI matches, complements or surpasses, human intelligence. Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft is about augmenting human abilities and experiences and having humans and machine collaborate as teams in a complementary and trustworthy fashion. In this talk I will expose the breadth of AI efforts at Microsoft, the need to build bridges across diverse communities to create new multimodal and interdisciplinary research efforts.