Kate Crawford,USC Annenberg & Principal Researcher
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Kate Crawford,USC Annenberg & Principal Researcher

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Over her 20-year career, her work has focused on understanding large scale data systems, machine learning and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment. Kate is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR-NYC, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney.
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As an academic, writer, musician, producer, and researcher, Kate Crawford focuses on the social and political ramifications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and holds positions as an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Center at the University of New South Wales, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, a co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective). She also belongs to the Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development at the WEF.

Crawford studies how media technology and social change interact, especially at the interface of mobile devices, social networks, and people. Her study looks at how AI impacts racial, gender, and socioeconomic elements of human existence. She contends that rather than being impartial or objective, AI systems reflect and uphold the current hierarchies of power and injustice. She also looks at the cultural and historical backgrounds of AI’s growth, as well as its effects on the environment and ethics. In addition to showing her creative works in music and art at institutions like the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, she has published on cultures of technology usage and the ways media histories influence the present.


2023

Microsoft has been at the forefront of innovative developments, such as its collaborations with OpenAI and the incorporation of ChatGPT features into search, work, and learning applications. Microsoft is reconsidering cloud infrastructure as the business dives deeper into AI to guarantee optimization at every stage of the hardware and software stack.

Microsoft Ignite is a showcase of the advances being developed to help customers, partners and developers achieve the total value of Microsoft’s technology and reshape the way work is done.

Ignite is launching significant advancements across a fleet of datacenters, which include two new processors created by Microsoft and the most recent AI-optimized silicon from industry partners.

  • Microsoft Azure Maia is an AI Accelerator chip that can be used with Bing, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and OpenAI models to do cloud-based training and inferencing.
  • A cloud-native Microsoft Azure Cobalt chip is designed for general-purpose applications and is tuned for cost-effectiveness, performance, and power economy.

Furthermore, Microsoft is launching Azure Boost, a technology that transfers networking and storage functions off host servers and onto dedicated hardware and software, resulting in quicker performance.


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