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Microsoft Research Podcast
An ongoing series of conversations bringing you right up to the cutting edge of Microsoft Research.
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Ideas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project
Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz and guests Bruce Wittmann, Tessa Alexanian, and James Diggans discuss the Paraphrase Project—a red-teaming effort that expose...

Coauthor roundtable: Reflecting on healthcare economics, biomedical research, and medical education
For the series finale, Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Dr. Zak Kohane compare their predictions to insights from the series’ most recent guests, includ...
Reimagining healthcare delivery and public health with AI
Former Washington State Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah and Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia explore how healthcare leaders are approaching AI...
Navigating medical education in the era of generative AI
Next-generation physicians Morgan Cheatham and Daniel Chen discuss how generative AI is transforming medical education, exploring how students and att...
AI Testing and Evaluation: Reflections
In the series finale, Amanda Craig Deckard returns to examine what Microsoft has learned about testing as a governance tool. She also explores the rol...
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from cybersecurity
Drawing on his previous work as the UK’s cybersecurity chief, Professor Ciaran Martin explores differentiated standards and public-private partnership...
How AI will accelerate biomedical research and discovery
Daphne Koller, Noubar Afeyan, and Dr. Eric Topol, leaders in AI-driven medicine, discuss how AI is changing biomedical research and discovery, from ac...
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from pharmaceuticals and medical devices
Professors Daniel Carpenter and Timo Minssen explore evolving pharma and medical device regulation, including the role of clinical trials, while Micro...
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from genome editing
In this episode, Alta Charo, emerita professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, joins Sullivan for a conversation on the e...
AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from Science and Industry
In the introductory episode of this new series, host Kathleen Sullivan and Senior Director Amanda Craig Deckard explore Microsoft’s efforts to draw on...
The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: How AI is reshaping the future of healthcare and medical research
Technologists Bill Gates and Sébastien Bubeck discuss the state of generative AI in medicine, how access to “medical intelligence” might help empower...
What AI's impact on individuals means for the health workforce and industry
Ethan Mollick and Azeem Azhar, thought leaders at the forefront of AI’s influence on work, education, and society, discuss the impact of AI at the ind...
Abstracts: Zero-shot models in single-cell biology with Alex Lu
The emergence of foundation models has sparked interest in applications to single-cell biology, but when tested in zero-shot settings, they underperfo...
Abstracts: Aurora with Megan Stanley and Wessel Bruinsma
A new Nature paper explores Aurora, an AI model that redefines weather prediction with application to other environmental domains such as tropical cyc...
Collaborators: Healthcare Innovation to Impact
In this discussion, Matthew Lungren, Jonathan Carlson, Smitha Saligrama, Will Guyman, and Cameron Runde explore how teams across Microsoft are working...
Coauthor roundtable: Reflecting on real world of doctors, developers, patients, and policymakers
Peter Lee and his coauthors, Carey Goldberg and Dr. Zak Kohane, reflect on how generative AI is unfolding in real-world healthcare, drawing on earlier...
Abstracts: Heat Transfer and Deep Learning with Hongxia Hao and Bing Lv
Silicon has long borne the burden of heat transfer in electronics, but in a post-Moore’s Law world, researchers like Hongxia Hao and Bing Lv are using...
Abstracts: Societal AI with Xing Xie
New AI models aren’t just changing the world of research; they’re also poised to impact society. Xing Xie talks about Societal AI, a white paper that...
The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: Laws, norms, and ethics for AI in health
Healthcare experts Laura Adams, Vardit Ravitsky, and Dr. Roxana Daneshjou discuss responsible AI implementation in medicine, examining governance appr...
The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: Empowering patients and healthcare consumers in the age of generative AI
Evangelist for patient empowerment Dave deBronkart and Manatt Heath’s Christina Farr discuss how generative AI is redefining healthcare by empowering...
The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: Real-world healthcare AI development and deployment—at scale
Microsoft’s Dr. Matthew Lungren and Epic’s Seth Hain discuss the challenges and opportunities of leveraging generative AI for enhanced patient care an...
Ideas: Accelerating Foundation Models Research: AI for all
Innovative AI research often depends on access to resources. Microsoft wants to help. Technical Advisor Evelyne Viegas and distinguished faculty from...
The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: The reality of generative AI in the clinic
UC San Diego Health’s Dr. Christopher Longhurst and UC San Francisco Health’s Dr. Sara Murray explore how generative AI is changing patient care, clin...
The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: An Introduction
Host Peter Lee, Microsoft Research president, discusses the motivation behind the new series and the GPT-4 encounter that helped him view the tech not...
Ideas: Quantum computing redefined with Chetan Nayak
Microsoft announced the creation of the first topoconductor and first QPU architecture with a topological core. Dr. Chetan Nayak, a technical fellow o...
Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi
In this episode, guest host Chris Stetkiewicz talks with Microsoft Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi about his focus on developing AI-driven technolog...
Ideas: Bug hunting with Shan Lu
Struggles with programming languages helped research manager Shan Lu find her calling as a bug hunter. She discusses one bug that really haunted her,...
Ideas: AI for materials discovery with Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu
How do you generate and test materials that don’t exist yet? Researchers Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu share the story behind MatterGen and MatterSim, AI too...
Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness
As the “biggest election year in history” comes to an end, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness and Democracy Forward GM Ginny Badanes...
NeurIPS 2024: The co-evolution of AI and systems with Lidong Zhou
Just after his NeurIPS 2024 keynote on the co-evolution of systems and AI, Microsoft CVP Lidong Zhou joins the podcast to discuss how rapidly advancin...
NeurIPS 2024: AI for Science with Chris Bishop
In this special edition of the podcast, Technical Fellow and Microsoft Research AI for Science Director Chris Bishop joins guest host Eliza Strickland...
Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Jindong Wang and Steven Euijong Whang
Researcher Jindong Wang and Associate Professor Steven Euijong Whang explore the NeurIPS 2024 work ERBench. ERBench leverages relational databases to...
Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Weizhu Chen
Next-token prediction trains a language model on all tokens in a sequence. VP Weizhu Chen discusses his team’s 2024 NeurIPS paper on how distinguishin...
Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Pranjal Chitale
Pranjal Chitale discusses the 2024 NeurIPS work CVQA. Spanning 31 languages and the cultures of 30 countries, this VQA benchmark was created with nati...
Abstracts: NeurIPS 2024 with Dylan Foster
Can existing algorithms designed for simple reinforcement learning problems be used to solve more complex RL problems? Researcher Dylan Foster discuss...
Ideas: Economics and computation with Nicole Immorlica
When Senior Principal Research Manager Nicole Immorlica discovered she could use math to make the world a better place for people, she was all in. She...
Ideas: The journey to DNA data storage
Research manager Karin Strauss and members of the DNA Data Storage Project reflect on the path to developing a synthetic DNA–based system for archival...
Abstracts: November 14, 2024
The efficient simulation of molecules has the potential to change how the world understands biological systems and designs new drugs and biomaterials....
Collaborators: Prompt engineering with Siddharth Suri and David Holtz
Researcher Siddharth Suri and professor David Holtz give a brief history of prompt engineering, discuss the debate behind their recent collaboration,...
Abstracts: November 5, 2024
Researchers Chris Hawblitzel and Jay Lorch share how progress in programming languages and verification approaches are bringing bug-free software with...