AI can read! Tech firms race to smarten up thinking machines

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) " Seven years ago, a computer beat two human quizmasters on a "Jeopardy" challenge. Ever since, the tech industry has been training its machines even harder to make them better at amassing knowledge and answering questions.And it's worked, at least up to a point. Just don't expect artificial intelligence to spit out a literary analysis of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" any time soon.Research teams at Microsoft and Chinese tech company Alibaba reached what [...]


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