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Tuesday 27 March 2018

Microsoft uses Intel FPGA technology to accelerate Bing’s AI and deep learning

Back in December, Microsoft introduced a set of new A.I based abilities to Bing browser for better information in search results. Today, Microsoft is rolling out more refined enhancements and several more features. Bing will now aggregate more facts for given topics across several sites; you can save time by learning about a topic without having to check several sources yourself. To put it in simple, Bing will now club more information in a single place thus eliminating the need to search from several websites. However, Bing will also include a link to its source if you wish to know more details.   It will now provide multiple answers to how-to questions so you can pick whichever is best for you. In your searches, if you come across a word that isn’t common knowledge, Bing will now show you its definition when you hover over with the cursor. Back in December, Bing rolled out intelligent image search, which allows you to search within an image to find similar images and products. Now, this feature is expanded to work with more categories and not just limited to few fashion items. Microsoft says that delivering intelligent search requires tasks like machine reading comprehension, requiring immense computational power. So the company is relying on the Intel for ...