Microsoft’s AI Is Better Than Doctors at Diagnosing Disease

Medicine may be a combination of art and science, but Microsoft just showed that much of both can be learned—by a bot. The company reports in a study published on the preprint site arXiv that its AI-based medical program, the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), correctly diagnosed 85% of cases described in the New England … Read more

Microsoft’s Magma AI Can Manipulate and Control Robots

Microsoft just introduced Magma, a new AI model designed to help robots see, understand and act more intelligently. Unlike traditional artificial intelligence models, Magma processes different types of data all at once – an effort Microsoft is calling a big leap toward “agentic AI,” or systems that can plan and execute tasks on a user’s … Read more