Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft and former director of Microsoft Research
Eric Horvitz is Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft, where Horvitz leads initiatives at the intersection of science, technology, and society with emphases on AI, biosciences, and healthcare. Before taking that role, Horvitz served as director of Microsoft Research, overseeing its research labs. Horvitz's research has covered perception, reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty and principles for human-AI collaboration, and Horvitz founded and chairs Microsoft's Aether committee on AI, effects, and ethics in engineering and research. Horvitz co-authored the 2023 studies "Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems" and the Medprompt paper on steering generalist foundation models in medicine, and has received the Feigenbaum Prize and the Allen Newell Prize.1243
Work
Can Generalist Foundation Models Outcompete Special-Purpose Tuning? (Medprompt) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2023 paper studying whether prompting strategies can steer a generalist foundation model to perform specialist medical question answering.3
Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2023 evaluation of GPT-4 on medical competency examinations and benchmark datasets.4
Other documented roles
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- Director of Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research1
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