Microsoft Corp., battling to improve its internet search capabilities and prove its mettle in the increasingly competitive field of artificial intelligence, is adding features to Bing that improve search within images and give people more context in answers.<\/p>\n
The image feature lets users home in on parts of pictures to search for, if one is looking for similar necklaces to the one on a woman in a larger photo, for example. An upgrade to\u00a0the \u201cintelligent answers\u201d feature gives users snippets of multiple responses and verified sources, a nod to addressing \u201cfake news\u201d and dodgy sites.<\/p>\n
\u201cConversational search,\u201d a feature Microsoft has been working to improve for years, adds to a user\u2019s ability to construct queries in plain English and get a useful result — Microsoft showed it returning answers to the question: \u201cFilms directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConversational search uses large-scale machine learning so this is only going to get better over time,\u201d said Kristina Behr, a manager of Microsoft\u2019s AI team, at an event to show off the company\u2019s work in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
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