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Who do YOU think wins? IBM’s ‘unsettling’ AI supercomputer argues convincingly against humans in landmark debates between man and machine
IBM’s new AI supercomputer has been shown to take on humans in a debate and, according to its creators, ‘win’.
Named Project Debater, the ‘unsettling’ AI was pitted against two humans in the first public demonstration of its ability at an event in San Francisco.
It competed in what is known as computational argumentation, where debaters know a subject, present a position and defend it against opposition.
The computer delivered its opening argument by pulling in evidence from its huge database, mainly made up from news articles and journals.
It then listened to a professional human debater’s counter-argument and spent four minutes rebutting it.
Although the crowd agreed the human beings were unmatched in delivery, it decided the machine made better arguments with more substance.
However many of its responses were plagiarised with full sentences lifted from well-known sources, raising the question of how intelligent the AI really is.
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