The world’s most popular internet search engine said its latest refinement uses machine learning to improve how it handles conversationally phrased English-language requests. “We’re making a significant improvement to how we understand queries, representing the biggest leap forward in the past five years, and one of the biggest leaps forward in the history of search,” Google search vice president Pandu Nayak said in an online post. Meet BERT, a new way for Google Search to better understand language and improve our search results. Google hails ‘quantum supremacy’, but don’t chuck out your PC just yetSome BERT models for figuring queries out are so complicated they need to be handled by high-powered computer processors specifically designed for the cloud, according to Google. “Previously, our algorithms wouldn’t understand the importance of this connection, and we returned results about US citizens traveling to Brazil,” Nayak said.

Source: The Express Tribune October 25, 2019 16:52 UTC