{"id":33276,"date":"2018-10-30T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33276"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:09:21","slug":"microsoft-new-bing-update-aims-to-tackle-fake-news-with-artificial-intelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/microsoft-new-bing-update-aims-to-tackle-fake-news-with-artificial-intelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft new Bing update aims to tackle fake news with artificial intelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/internet\/microsoft-new-bing-update-aims-to-tackle-fake-news-with-artificial-intelligence\/article21618436.ece?homepage=true\">Microsoft new Bing update aims to tackle fake news with artificial intelli<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out new features on its Bing search engine powered by artificial intelligence<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bing will deliver two perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One that summarizes the two opposing sides of contentious questions<\/li>\n<li>Another that measures how many reputable sources are behind a given answer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Trying to distinguish itself from Google<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is also trying to distinguish its second-place search engine from long-dominant Google and position itself as an innovator in finding real-world applications for the latest advances in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Coffee good for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new search features side-by-side opposing perspectives for a question like above.<\/p>\n<p>One source emphasizes coffee\u2019s ability to increase metabolism and another shows it can raise blood pressure<\/p>\n<p>Similar questions can also be asked on more sensitive topics, such as whether the death penalty is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0For now s<\/strong><strong>imple questions only<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On more complicated questions is there a god? Bing doesn\u2019t have enough confidence to provide a pro-con perspective. But on questions that involve numbers, it boils information down into digestible doses. Iraq, for instance, is described as \u201cabout equal to the size of California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The search engine features were announced along with updates to Microsoft\u2019s voice assistant Cortana and a new search partnership with the popular online forum Reddit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft new Bing update aims to tackle fake news with artificial intelli Context Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out new features on its Bing search engine powered by artificial intelligence Bing will deliver two perspectives One that summarizes the two opposing sides of contentious questions Another that measures how many reputable sources are behind a given&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/microsoft-new-bing-update-aims-to-tackle-fake-news-with-artificial-intelli\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft new Bing update aims to tackle fake news with artificial intelli<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704574945},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}