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Fresh on the heels of GPT-4’s public release, a team of Microsoft AI scientists published a research paper claiming the OpenAI language model — which powers Microsoft’s now somewhat lobotomized Bing AI — shows “sparks” of human-level intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI).Emphasis on the “sparks.” The researchers are careful in the paper to characterize GPT-4’s…
Mikhail Parakhin, the current CEO of Bing at Microsoft and former CTO at Yandex said that Google Bard is “pretty far behind” compared to Bing Chat. “We learned to never underestimate Google,” he added.Mikhail Parakhin wrote on Twitter when asked about his impressions of the Bard launch, and like many, he is a bit underwhelmed.…
Edge has some very user-hostile defaults, at least for the type of user who doesn’t want extra ads and doesn’t want to send personal data to Microsoft just for funsies. Did you know that out-of-the-box, Edge will transmit the content of your text boxes on web pages to the Microsoft Editor service for the purpose…
Microsoft laid off an entire team dedicated to guiding AI innovation that leads to ethical, responsible and sustainable outcomes. The cutting of the ethics and society team, as reported by Platformer, is part of a recent spate of layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company. The elimination of the team comes as Microsoft invests…
Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned. The move leaves Microsoft without a dedicated team to ensure its AI principles are closely tied to product design at a time when the company is leading…
In new features that you probably missed, Microsoft Edge (if you can stomach using that browser), has a feature that mimics some of Apple’s Lockdown Mode. When enabled:JIT (Just In Time Compilation for JavaScript) on websites is disabled to reduce the attack surface.Hardware Enforced Stack Protection, Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG), and Control Flow Guard (CFG)…
Skip to main content / In a new filing, Microsoft shared how it could bring Call of Duty games to Nintendo’s lower-powered device. Mar 8, 2023, 9:32 PM UTC|Imagine this, but with Nintendo Switch graphics. Image: ActivisionIn a filing (pdf) submitted to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft shared some details about how…
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has passed the 100 million daily active users milestone just weeks after the software maker launched its AI-powered Bing Chat feature. Bing has been steadily growing in recent years, but it appears the new Bing Chat feature is helping Microsoft grow usage with people that have never touched Bing before.Google has…
Microsoft is making Outlook for Mac free to use today. Outlook is now available free in Apple’s App Store, and you no longer need a Microsoft 365 subscription or Office license to use it. It’s a surprise move that coincides with Microsoft’s push to make its Windows desktop Outlook email client more web-powered.Outlook for Mac…
Microsoft has unveiled Video Super Resolution (VSR) — an “experimental” video upscaling feature for its Edge web browser that uses machine learning to increase the resolution of low-quality video. Announced on the Edge Insiders blog, Microsoft’s VSR technology can “remove blocky compression artifacts” and improve text clarity for videos on platforms such as YouTube. The…
More than meets the AI — Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI. Benj Edwards – Mar 1, 2023 11:49 pm UTC Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball.Ars Technica On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for…
Both Intel and Microsoft seem to be preparing for the as yet unannounced Windows 12. The hardware leaker @leaf_hobby, known for revealing the full specs of Intel’s Xeon chips before launch, has published details about Intel’s Meteor Lake desktop platform. Intel reportedly mentions internally that its next-gen CPUs will support Windows 12.While the tweet has…
Being the default out-of-the-box browser on Windows 10 and 11 makes Microsoft Edge a go-to utility for downloading Chrome (or another browser). That upsets Microsoft so much that it constantly comes with more aggressive and user-hostile methods to make customers stay on Edge and not download Chrome. An attempt to get Chrome using Edge Canary…
Microsoft is preparing to launch a new version of Microsoft Teams next month that has been rebuilt from the ground up to significantly improve its system resource usage on PCs and laptops. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the software giant has recently started testing this new Teams client broadly inside Microsoft,…
Microsoft launched the new Bing search engine last week. Photo: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg NewsBy Eric BellmanFeb. 17, 2023 11:12 pm ETMicrosoft Corp. is putting caps on the usage of its new Bing search engine which uses the technology behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT after testers discovered it sometimes generates glaring mistakes and disturbing responses.The software giant…
[1/2] The Microsoft logo is seen outside the Microsoft Experience Center in New York City, U.S., January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonFeb 17 (Reuters) – Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to five questions per session and 50 questions per day.”As…
micro-nerfed — Microsoft limits long conversations to address “concerns being raised.” Benj Edwards – Feb 17, 2023 11:11 pm UTC Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing Chat service, still in private testing, has been in the headlines for its wild and erratic outputs. But that era has apparently come to an end.…
Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet. But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler.The tech company said this week it is promising to…
Microsoft is officially supporting Windows 11 on Apple’s M1 and M2 Macs thanks to a partnership with Parallels to allow the operating system to run in a virtual environment. Parallels Desktop version 18 is “an authorized solution” to run Arm versions of Windows 11 on Apple’s latest M1 and M2 Macs, according to a new…
This week Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, announced that his company’s internet search engine — the way the vast majority of humans interact with a near-total corpus of human knowledge — is about to change. Enter a query, and you’ll get more than pages and pages of links, along with a few suggested answers.…
Microsoft has announced a new version of its search engine Bing, powered by an upgraded version of the same AI technology that underpins chatbot ChatGPT. The company is launching the product alongside new AI-enhanced features for its Edge browser, promising that the two will provide a new experience for browsing the web and finding information…
At a Microsoft press event today where the company demonstrated its new A.I.-powered search capabilities in Bing, the company also announced a new version of its Edge web browser that includes A.I. technologies built-in. With the new browser, web users are able to do things like summarize search results with A.I.’s help and converse with…
Something interesting I noticed being a software engineer at Microsoft. Not on Edge or Azure DevOps, though. My team at Microsoft requires Git commits to be attested via a YubiKey on Azure DevOps before it can be pushed. Azure DevOps is like GitHub/GitLab but usually “intranet”-only (meaning behind a company’s Azure Active Directory). Last Friday,…
Microsoft will reportedly integrate OpenAI’s upcoming large language model GPT-4 into the Bing search engine over the next few weeks, as Google scrambles to test rival AI products, fearing it could lose its dominant position in online search. Text-generation models have evolved from being able to autocomplete text to being able to carry out more…
You may have seen headlines like “DirectStorage causes 10 percent performance hit on RTX 4090 in Forspoken” or “Careful — Microsoft DirectStorage could kill your frame rate,” all based on a single test from German YouTube channel PC Games Hardware. Microsoft’s new DirectStorage feature is designed to boost load times in PC games massively, but…
Microsoft is investigating an outage that has hit users of its products worldwide including Teams and Outlook.The US tech firm said it was investigating “issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services”, referring to a suite of products that includes its Teams messaging and videoconference service, Outlook email and word and excel programmes.We’re investigating issues impacting multiple…
We’re happy to announce that OpenAI and Microsoft are extending our partnership. This multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment from Microsoft follows their previous investments in 2019 and 2021, and will allow us to continue our independent research and develop AI that is increasingly safe, useful, and powerful. In pursuit of our mission to ensure advanced AI…
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella spoke on the future of AI in the workplace in Davos this week. His remarks come as the company began its first wave of layoffs, expected to total 10,000 employees. Increased availability of Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service follows AI integration within the company’s own products like Excel and Bing. Loading Something…
In recent months, a slew of tech companies have announced cost-cutting measures, with Amazon, Apple and Google-parent Alphabet all announcing hiring slowdowns or freezes.For the tech sector, the pandemic boom has turned to a post-pandemic bust, as rising interest rates batter share prices and inflation cuts into profits.The sector shed 9,587 jobs in October, the…
The Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. You can see a video of the project below. One thing that makes it a bit odd compared to other Altair clones we’ve seen is that the emulator runs in a…
