Fireside chat: Opportunities and challenges in human oriented AI

Speakers: Ashley Llorens, Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research Redmond Katja Hofmann, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge Siddhartha Sen, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC A key challenge in developing novel AI technology is to ensure that resulting approaches and their applications fit well within the human environments they will be applied in. Recent research at Microsoft develops new approaches and insights into how AI techniques like machine learning and reinforcement learning can model more humanlike AI behavior and provide new insights, experiences, and learning opportunities in game settings. In this fireside chat, Principal Researcher Siddhartha Sen (Microsoft Research NYC) and Senior Principal Researcher Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research Cambridge) will discuss how their teams respective work on Maia Chess and Project Paidia pave the way for more humanaware AIand where they see exciting opportunities and key challenges on