Project Debater

June 19th, 2018 at 12:18:59 AM permalink
rxwine
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It is getting to the point where saying a computer can't do something is not a sure bet. At least check technology news first.

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IBM's Project Debater made its public debut in San Francisco Monday afternoon, where it squared off against Noa Ovadia, the 2016 Israeli debate champion and in a second debate, Dan Zafrir, a nationally renowned debater in Israel. The AI is the latest grand challenge from IBM, which previously created Deep Blue, technology that beat chess champion Garry Kasparov and Watson, which bested humans on the game show Jeopardy.

In its first public outing, 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 skinny, black rectangular screen stands about five and a half feet tall, putting it around the same height as a human opponent.




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An audience survey taken before and after each debate found that Project Debater better enriched the audience's knowledge as it argued in favor of subsidies for space exploration and in favor of telemedicine, but that the human debaters did a better job delivering their speeches.

This comes from Project Debater's ability to "dive into a lot of data very quickly and gather information and numbers we don't have access to quickly," said Ranit Aharonov, manager of the Project Debater team in Haifa, Israel.




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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. It even dropped the odd joke, but with the expected robotic delivery.
When arguing in support of telemedicine, Project Debater said: "I can't say it makes my blood boil because I have no blood," and then launched into a passionate defense of technological advances.



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/resolved-new-robot-can-hold-its-own-in-debate-with-a-human-ibm-says/ar-AAyPMie?ocid=spartanntp
You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
June 19th, 2018 at 12:32:22 AM permalink
rxwine
Member since: Oct 24, 2012
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A short clip of it from IBM promo

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?