Microsoft releases set of 100,000 questions and answers to help researchers create AI tools

New York: So that artificial intelligence (AI) researchers can use to create systems that can read and answer questions as precisely as a human, Microsoft has released a set of 100,000 questions and answers.

"The dataset is called MS MARCO, which stands for Microsoft MAchine Reading COmprehension, and can be used to teach artificial intelligence systems to recognise questions and formulate answers and, eventually, to create systems that can come up with their own answers based on unique questions they have not seen before," said Microsoft in a blog post.

By providing realistic questions and answers, the researchers said they can train systems to better deal with the nuances and complexities of questions regular people actually ask, including those queries that have no clear answer or multiple possible answers.

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