Microsoft opens dataset for teaching computers to talk

Microsoft is trying to help create machines that can have conversations by releasing a new set of data for free.
The data, called the Microsoft Machine Reading Comprehension dataset (MS MARCO) is a bundle of 100,000 English queries along with corresponding answers. It's supposed to help people build artificial intelligence systems that can understand human written language.
The company is opening up its dataset in the hope that Microsoft can work with other organizations on making machines bett