A human just triumphed over IBM’s six-year-old AI debater

Bengaluru: On Tuesday, International Business Machines Corp.’s (IBM’s) artificial intelligence (AI) system, which engaged in a live, public debate with a human champion, Harish Natarajan, at Think 2019 in San Francisco, lost the argument.

Natarajan and IBM’s AI system, Project Debater, began by preparing arguments for and against the resolution, “We should subsidize preschool”. Both sides had only 15 minutes to prepare their speech, following which they delivered a four-minute opening statement, a four-minute rebuttal, and a two-minute summary. (read more)