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Semantic Machines and the Microsoft Search, Assistant and Intelligence (MSAI) team are looking for Research Interns to help invent the next generation of conversational artificial intelligence (AI). We are building Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat. Our mission is to understand the language and behavior of our users as they work and collaborate using Microsoft productivity apps and their Copilots, which are GPT-4-powered dialogue agents that connect to real-world application programing interfaces (APIs). Our work focuses on:

Training, controlling, rapidly modifying, and automatically adapting BizChat behaviors.Decomposition and reasoning to handle user requests.Personalization and memory.Modeling user actions (non-linguistic behavior) and implicit feedback.Grounding and attribution within BizChat responses.Large language model (LLM) inference cost and latency reduction.Model-assisted data collection and evaluation.New open-domain, multimodal, and contextual dialogue experiences.Machine learning approaches to support these goals.