Internet related News · 2017-12-14

AI makes Bing search engine even more advanced: Microsoft – News

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Microsoft said on Wednesday it had added Artificial Intelligence (AI) to its Bing search engine, Cortana intelligent assistant & Microsoft Office 365 productivity tools “to help people get more nuanced information & assist with more complex needs.”

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Microsoft executives showcased a number of advances on these 3 platforms.

These offerings, which build on the progress Microsoft has made in the past year in integrating AI across its product line, are the most recent examples of how engineers and computer scientists are using AI to help people do much more than just classify information.

“AI has come a long way in the ability to find information, but making sense of that information is the real challenge,” said Kristina Behr, a partner design & planning program manager with Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence & Research group.

Jordi Ribas, Microsoft’s corporate Vice President in charge of AI products, noted that when people think of AI, they often think of robots or AI-powered vehicles. What many people don’t realize is that AI also is having a tangible, useful impact on most people’s day-to-day lives, through products like search or Office 365 that they use every day.

At the event in San Francisco, Microsoft demonstrated some of the most recent AI-driven advances in intelligent search that are aimed at giving people richer, more useful information.

They include visual search, which uses computer vision & object recognition advances to help people more easily track down information about something shown in a picture, & machine reading comprehension, which uses deep learning to read Content & understand its deeper context, such as knowing that a cousin is a family member.

Bing also is working on a system to help users get to the information they are looking for even if they aren’t exactly sure how to find it. For example, let’s say you are trying to turn on Bluetooth on a new device. The new system could prompt users to provide more information, such as the type of gadget or operating system they are using.


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