Project Debater, who looks a little bit like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, has been able to face off against top-tier human debaters in front of a live audience, such as the debate I played earlier which took place in California against Harish Natarajan, a world-class debater. Here, winners are tricky to identify, but now IBM have developed such a system by honing a few different AI technologies, such as argument mining and understanding of human language, and getting each of these different AI components to work together all whilst squaring off against an opponent. Things like board games and video games have a clear ‘win’ state that an AI can try hundreds of techniques to achieve. But for the principal investigator of Project Debater from IBM, Noam Slonim, these challenges aren’t tough enough.Īlthough it is clear that all these grand challenges were extremely instrumental to the development of artificial intelligence, these board games still lie in what we refer to as the ‘comfort zone’ of artificial intelligence. On the podcast, we’ve talked about a few different AIs – ones that can play board games, some that can play video games, and AIs like Watson who competed on Jeopardy. In fact, she has successfully debated humans live several times. That right there is the voice of an artificial intelligence called Project Debater, who came up with the statement and the whole debate herself. I have heard you hold the world record in debate competition wins against humans, but I suspect you’ve never debated a machine. I’m Nick Petrić Howe.įirst up on the show, it’s time for a bit of a debate. On this week’s show, the computer that can debate humans. Head here for the Nature Podcast RSS feed. Never miss an episode: Subscribe to the Nature Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or your favourite podcast app.
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