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“A new IBM robot holds its own in a debate against a human”
“In its first public outing, (IBM’s) Project Debater turned out to be a formidable opponent, scanning the hundreds of millions of newspaper and journal articles in its memory to quickly synthesize an argument on a topic and position it was assigned on the spot.”
The human opponents for the debates are Israeli debate champions.
“The AI isn’t trained on topics — it’s trained on the art of debate. For the most part, Project Debater spoke in natural language, choosing the same words and sentence structures as a native English speaker.”
“‘Project Debater could be the ultimate fact-based sounding board without the bias that often comes from humans,’ said Arvind Krishna, director of IBM Research."
Presumably two of such computers could scan the same bodies of “apologetic literature” and debate opposite sides of any point.
“In its first public outing, (IBM’s) Project Debater turned out to be a formidable opponent, scanning the hundreds of millions of newspaper and journal articles in its memory to quickly synthesize an argument on a topic and position it was assigned on the spot.”
The human opponents for the debates are Israeli debate champions.
“The AI isn’t trained on topics — it’s trained on the art of debate. For the most part, Project Debater spoke in natural language, choosing the same words and sentence structures as a native English speaker.”
“‘Project Debater could be the ultimate fact-based sounding board without the bias that often comes from humans,’ said Arvind Krishna, director of IBM Research."
Presumably two of such computers could scan the same bodies of “apologetic literature” and debate opposite sides of any point.
