{"id":111958,"date":"2020-08-26T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/microsoft-researcher-dr-cecily-morrison-will-discuss-keeping-ai-personal-at-sight-tech-global"},"modified":"2020-08-26T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:22:31","slug":"microsoft-researcher-dr-cecily-morrison-will-discuss-keeping-ai-personal-at-sight-tech-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/microsoft-researcher-dr-cecily-morrison-will-discuss-keeping-ai-personal-at-sight-tech-global","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft researcher Dr. Cecily Morrison will discuss keeping AI \u2018personal\u2019 at Sight Tech Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-researcher-dr-cecily-morrison-will-discuss-keeping-ai-personal-at-sight-tech-global2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Dr. Cecily Morrison, research into how AI can help people who are blind or visually disabled is deeply personal. It\u2019s not only that the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Microsoft<\/a> Principal Researcher has a 7-year-old son who is blind, she also believes that the powerful AI-related technologies that will help people must themselves be personal, tailored to the circumstances and abilities of the people they support.<\/p>\n<p>We will see new AI techniques that will enable users to personalize experiences for themselves,\u201d says Dr. Morrison, who is based at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/lab\/microsoft-research-cambridge\/\">Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/a> and whose work is centered on human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. \u201cEveryone is different. Having a disability label does not mean a person has the same needs as another with the same label. New techniques will allow people to teach AI technologies about their information needs with just a few examples in order to get a personalized experience suited to their particular needs. Tech will become about personal needs rather than disability labels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2036679\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-researcher-dr-cecily-morrison-will-discuss-keeping-ai-personal-at-sight-tech-global3.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Cecily Morrison with her partner and two children, including her seven-year-old son who is holding his cane.\" width=\"300\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Dr. Cecily Morrison, research into how AI can help people who are blind or visually disabled is deeply personal. It\u2019s not only that the Microsoft Principal Researcher has a 7-year-old son who is blind, she also believes that the powerful AI-related technologies that will help people must themselves be personal, tailored to the circumstances [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}