{"id":209320,"date":"2017-05-05T11:19:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T09:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=209320"},"modified":"2017-05-05T11:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T09:21:29","slug":"microsoft-building-ai-that-can-read-and-answer-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/209320-microsoft-building-ai-that-can-read-and-answer-questions.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft building AI that can read and answer questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/next\/2017\/05\/04\/microsoft-is-teaching-systems-to-read-answer-and-even-ask-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">artificial intelligence\u00a0experts<\/a><\/strong> are working on systems which can read text and answer questions about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re trying to develop what we call a literate machine: a machine that can read text, understand text, and then learn how to communicate, whether it&#8217;s written or orally,&#8221; said the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>AI experts state that machine reading is more difficult than other AI tasks, like image recognition, because there is more ambiguity involved.<\/p>\n<p>To generate\u00a0answers to questions about text, an AI will have to look for the context of words\u00a0and background knowledge it has on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said an effective machine reading system could advance\u00a0how search engines work.<\/p>\n<p>This would see machine reading systems responding to queries in the same way a knowledgeable person would when asked a question.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/200314-artificial-intelligence-how-machines-learn.html\">Artificial intelligence &#8211; How machines learn<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft AI experts are working on systems which can read text and answer questions about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":93599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35793,123],"class_list":["post-209320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209474,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209320\/revisions\/209474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}