Saqib Shaikh

Excited to share two advances that bring us closer to real-world impact in healthcare AI: SDBench introduces a new benchmark that transforms 304 NEJM cases into interactive diagnostic simulations. AI must ask questions, order tests, and weigh costs, mirroring the complexity of real clinical decision-making. MAI-DxO is a model-agnostic orchestrator that simulates a panel of virtual physicians. It achieves 85.5% diagnostic accuracy—four times that of experienced doctors—while cutting diagnostic costs. Together, these advances offer a blueprint for how AI can help deliver precision and efficiency in healthcare, and we're looking forward to working with healthcare partners and the entire ecosystem on these advances making a difference. microsoft.ai/new/the-path-t…

As Microsoft celebrates it's 50th birthday, it's humbling to have our work on Seeing AI recognized as one of the 15 milestones that shaped Microsoft's vision for AI! Thank you @satyanadella for all your support. news.microsoft.com/source/feature… SeeingAI.com

Dear calendar, are there any meetings I can skip to play with this? 😊

That said, at my PC, Eloquence (from the 80's) remains my go-to voice for productivity work.

Pretty cool ☺️ impressed how far TTS technology has come in the past couple of years.

Great thread and paper - this has been a key part of our work on Seeing AI over the past decade - for this scenario it's absolutely better to be silent than to be wrong.

@Satya_ntr9999 @MSFTEnable @Sameerprince768 Any suggestions? Always have a bunch of cool ideas cooking in the lab! :-)

@MSFTEnable @Sameerprince768 We need more implements on Seeing AI

Join us at the 40th annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference next week (March 10-14 in Anaheim, CA). Microsoft's sessions will include #accessibility announcements, expert insights, and discussion on what’s next in #accessibleAI. msft.it/6017qGtc7

@madskristensen @JamesMontemagno Ctrl+t

What features in Visual Studio do you think more developers would benefit from if they knew about them?

@dwoodbridge The change was made from many requests, and quite a lot of positive feedback. But we're also hearing some people aren't liking having tabs, so are also open to looking at new ways which can balance all users' needs. If you want to discuss further I'd be happy to give you a call.

I'm not sure why Microsoft had to change the Seeing AI app into an app that uses tabs, now rather than a straight list I have to try and work out and remember which tab contains which option. Was it really that difficult to use?

Since it's launch in 2017, SeeingAI has consistently been a top app for blind and low vision users and is a prime example of #AIForAccessibility. That revolutionary accessibility won @AppleVis' Best App award for the 4th time. Discover all of the winners: msft.it/6015UzRuX

@gdb Eagerly awaiting an API to see how we (Microsoft Seeing AI) can build assistive solutions on top of this! ☺️ seeingai.com

ChatGPT video mode for analyzing a real-world scene:

@_karthik Once at a wedding I did see rasmalai cheesecake! Truely east-meets-west! But... A bit *too* much. 😋

the world is sleeping on the true potential of rasmalai and rasgulla. once the west truly wakes up to this dessert it’s over for the cheesecake, brownie or whatever monstrosity people eat.

@realJacobJed Lego ☺️ If you're asking for yourself, hope you get better soon.

Tech friends, what you do while sick and trying to rest, but not sick enough to seep? Watch tv, read books, anything else?

Excited to share our work on AI Audio Descriptions. Generates descriptions of video and fits the gaps between dialog. Releasing as open source for media companies to integrate into their workflows. Here's to making content more inclusive for blind viewers! github.com/microsoft/ai-a…

@dwoodbridge No new braille display? 😊

Loving these tech items for 2024 - Monarch with portable HDMI screen, Tactile Viewer image embossing, Odyssey portable print to speech reading machine, Annie self learning device for learning Braille - all from my favorite company Humanware grin.

@merrierm Congrats 😊

Excited that some of the research from the #SpeakFaster project on using large language models to accelerate eye gaze typing for people with ALS has been published in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s4146…

#SeeingAI is now easier for low vision users. Rest a finger on an icon or button to see its name writ large. It describes videos and inaccessible PDFs now too. blindios.uk/seeing-ai

The above examples show users' home videos - cute pets, family walking through holiday lights, and a drone show with autonomous drones making shapes in the night sky!

Seeing AI can now describe videos! Share short MP4 files, and hear descriptions of each scene. Early testers told us how it provided greater inclusion in group chats, reliving family memories, and understanding notifications from a doorbell camera. seeingai.com

I just took my first Waymo One ride in San Francisco! Even though I've known of this tech in theory, still a futuristic experience. 😊