IBM’s AI System, Project Debater, Debates Expert Debaters
At IBM’s Watson West site in San Francisco, Project Debater, “the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics”, recently debated 2016 Israeli national debate champion, Noa Ovadia. Each debater presented a four-minute opening statement, a four-minute rebuttal, and a two-minute summary arguing for or against the topic, “We should subsidize space exploration.” Project Debater…