How can AI move beyond simple responses and reliably address complex tasks? Meet Benjamin Van Durme (www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...), who is pushing the boundaries of natural language tools so they can handle multi-step processes with contextual understanding.

In 2024 we learned a lot about how AI is impacting work. People report that they're saving 30 minutes a day using AI (aka.ms/nfw2024), and randomized controlled trials reveal they’re creating 10% more documents, reading 11% fewer e-mails, and spending 4% less time on e-mail (aka.ms/productivity...).

Good news for your end-of-year reading list: We've just released the Microsoft 2024 New Future of Work Report! It's packed with insights on how AI is transforming work. aka.ms/nfw2024 #NewFutureOfWork #NFW2024 #AIResearch #WorkplaceInnovation #GenAI

I am at #NeurIPS this week! We are hiring full-time applied scientists in @microsoft.com Office of Applied Research, particularly those pushing the boundaries of model finetuning. Catch me for a chat or drop by Microsoft booth! #GenAI #Hiring #LLM #Copilot

Hello Bluesky! We're hiring amazing scientists in the productivity division at Microsoft. Come work with me, @teevan.bsky.social, and a whole legion of awesome researchers. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Can AI truly serve everyone, regardless of language or culture? Meet Sunayana Sitaram (www.linkedin.com/in/sunayana/), a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, who is working hard to ensure that it will.

Curious about how AI and remote work are reshaping our workplaces? Meet Brent Hecht (www.linkedin.com/in/brenthecht/), a pioneer in human-centered AI research.

Jaime Teevan joined Microsoft before it was cool again. Once she had completed her doctorate in artificial intelligence at MIT, Teevan had many career options, but was drawn to Microsoft’s respected, somewhat ivory-tower-ish research division. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/at-age...

It's TERRIFYING when an article you've been looking forward to drops and the first 2 words are your name. I almost couldn't keep reading!

Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO, the company was lumbering and uncool. He cleaned up a toxic culture, crafted the deal of the decade, and put Microsoft back on top.

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“Our work is essentially becoming having interesting conversations with our computer and with other people,” and I had a blast conversing with @mollywood.co about AI's untapped potential. Learn more about how AI's transforming our work by tuning into the WorkLab podcast. #AI #FutureOfWork #Microsoft

Microsoft’s Chief Scientist on AI’s Untapped Potential

Jaime Teevan shares research, insights, and advice on how leaders can challenge themselves and their teams to get the most out of AI.

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Ever wonder what it takes for AI to truly understand people’s needs? Meet Mengting Wan (www.linkedin.com/in/mengting-...), whose research has been key in integrating user insights into Copilot.

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Experience: Microsoft · Education: University of California, San Diego · Location: Seattle · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Mengting Wan’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billio...

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Want to solve some of the most important AI research problems in the world? Join the new Microsoft Productivity Scholars program as a post-doc or visiting researcher and help create the future of work! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... #NewFutureOfWork #ProductivityScholars #Microsoft

Check out #Microsoft's new #CFP focused on how language models impact productivity. We're funding research that will help shape the landscape of work for years to come. Got a bold idea? We’ve got $50K for it. Let's create the #NewFutureOfWork together! www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Have a #NewYearsResolution related to AI? Want to learn about AI & its applications, use AI to work more effectively, integrate AI into your organization, or understand AI's implications? Here's an easy way to keep that resolution!

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The #NewFutureofWork report synthesizes new – and newly relevant – academic research related to AI's impact on work. But it's too much to read in just one day! So I'm going to post a slide-a-day, highlighting tidbits and providing links to learn more. #Slide1 aka.ms/nfw2023

The #NewFutureofWork report synthesizes new – and newly relevant – academic research related to AI's impact on work. But it's too much to read in just one day! So I'm going to post a slide-a-day, highlighting tidbits and providing links to learn more. #Slide1 aka.ms/nfw2023

Despite vacation and rest, I’m entering 2024 more broken than I realized. I think 2023 was hard for me. It’s weirdly hard when your work becomes mainstream. Things that used to be challenging suddenly were easy, and the challenge became how to focus absent constraints. (a thread)

The future of work with AI is here - and Microsoft's a key player shaping it. That makes the 2023 New Future of Work AI report from @MSFTresearch a must-read for anyone who wants to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving world of work: aka.ms/nfw2023 #NFW #GenAI

Natural language is how we work with each other. Now it's how we work with our computers, too. LLMs aren't people, but they can help us do amazing things - if you know how to talk to them. Read this HBR article to learn the dos and don'ts of GenAI communication: hbr.org/2023/12/to-w...

To Work Well with GenAI, You Need to Learn How to Talk to It

Natural language conversations are at the foundation of how people work — historically that’s been true for how we work together, and now that’s also true for how we work with our computers. The...

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Check out "Deep Search" in Bing, which provides even more relevant and comprehensive answers to the most complex search queries. blogs.bing.com/search-quali... It's awesome to see #SlowSearch (teevan.org/publications...) finally become a reality!

Introducing Deep Search

Today’s search engines are powerful tools that help us find information on the web, but sometimes they fall short of our expectations. When we have complex, nuanced, or specific questions, we often ...

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First RQ tackled by Microsoft's AI and Productivity v-team: What impact does Copilot have on productivity for common enterprise information worker tasks for which LLMs have been hypothesized to provide significant value? Find the answer here: aka.ms/productivity...

Some of the most interesting research in the world right now is being done by the Office of Applied Research at Microsoft. Join #OAR as a PhD intern to help create a bright #NewFutureofWork. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... #Copilot #NFW #GenAI #NLP #HumanCenteredAI #DialogSystems #IR

It was obvious that GPT4 was going to change how we work - from the first day I got access I knew I wouldn't want to work without it. The trick was just going to be integrating it into people's workflows, with people's personal content, in a trustworthy and natural way. #MSIgnite

AI is shaping the world, but who is shaping the AI? Become a Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellow to join an interdisciplinary research conversation with Microsoft Researchers and scale the impact the research you do at the intersection of AI & Society. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

AI & Society Fellows - Microsoft Research

The Microsoft Research AI & Society fellows program aims to catalyze research collaboration between Microsoft Research and eminent scholars and experts across a range of disciplines core to discussion...

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Qs I typically get about #AI: How will AI change work? What led to this moment? Is it hype? But an economist just threw some new Qs my way on: regulation, governance, skilling, etc. Thanks Mark Duggan for hosting me at #SIEPR. My As to these new Qs here: www.youtube.com/live/7gbpHsT...

Associates Meeting - Jaime Teevan: AI and the Future of Productivity

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way we work, and Microsoft is among the leaders of that change. The company’s release of Microsoft 365 Copilo...

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Thanks to LLMs, we can now use natural language to interact with computers. But the conversational strategies you use to get the most out of an LLM are different than those you use with people. Want to learn the "art & science" of prompting AI? Check out: www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...

The Art and Science of Working with AI

We’re entering a new era of AI-powered productivity. Learn what business leaders need to know to get their organizations—and their people—ready

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Sometimes it takes an external push to really recognize you're in the middle of something big. Just seeing how many people I know and respect are on the first-ever #TIME100 AI list makes me feel like I'm a part of history. time.com/collection/t...

Tuesday's my birthday! And as a birthday gift, please tell me: How do you think the world will be different when we celebrate my next birthday? (But I'm posting a different question on each social media platform I'm on, so if you don't like this one check somewhere else.)

How can AI enhance people's ingenuity, creativity, and productivity? The leading foundation models on Azure are waiting for you to come figure that out! Microsoft invites the academic research community to apply for an #AFMR grant. Deadline: Sep 12. Details: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Accelerate Foundation Models Research - Fall 2023 - Microsoft Research

Foundation models are fueling a fundamental shift in computing research and across the sciences. Even as industry-led advances in AI continue to reach new heights, we believe that a vibrant and divers...

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"I'm not interested in when [AI] works," says chief scientist Teevan. "I'm like, 'Show me when it doesn't work.' And Satya is very much in that .. mindset: 'Let's find the cases where it breaks and how we're learning from that.'" http://fastcompany.com/90931084/satya-nadella-microsoft-ai-frontrunner

Here's our new cover story on Microsoft's AI momentum, for which I talked to Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, OpenAI's Mira Murati, and a whole bunch of other people. https://www.fastcompany.com/90931084/satya-nadella-microsoft-ai-frontrunner