Microsoft dataset aims to help researchers create tools to answer questions as well as people

Microsoft has released a set of 100,000 questions and answers that artificial intelligence researchers can use in their quest to create systems that can read and answer questions as well as a human. The MS MARCO dataset is available for free to any researcher who wants to download it and use it for non-commercial applications. Majumder said the ability for systems to answer complex questions could augment human abilities by helping people get information more efficiently. These datasets can be used to teach artificial intelligence systems to recognize questions and formulate answers and, eventually, to create systems that can come up with their own answers based on unique questions they haven't seen before. MS MARCO is modeled on similar training sets that were created to help spur breakthroughs in other areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence.