CAMBRIDGE, England -- The chamber hushed as the debate got underway at the Cambridge Union and the teams launched into their carefully crafted opening statements. The topic - whether artificial ...

Disclosure: IBM is a client of the author. I’ve been following IBM’s Watson effort since the beginning — and its initial focus on winning the game Jeopardy. This early effort was just a taste of what ...

IBM is launching a new tool today that will let decision makers talk through complex decisions with an AI system called Project Debater. The platform is designed to help people practice their ...

Could this be how the Anthropocene age ends, not with a bang, but with a corporate AI composing fragmented arguments in favor of telemedicine? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

IBM's Project Debater isn't sweeping humans off the debate stage just yet, but it's getting better at competing with them. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

The IBM algorithm Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. It was 2011 when IBM’s Watson won the game show Jeopardy. Shortly after, the IBM Research team was ready to go beyond game ...

IBM's Watson™ is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. - Tim Sandle IBM's Watson™ is a question-answering computer system capable of answering ...

IBM’s Project Debater, a powerful AI algorithm designed to challenge the most skilled human minds at speech and debate, is stronger than ever. But to be fair, neither can most other humans — and we ...

IBM has come up with an automatic debating system called Project Debater that researches a topic, presents an argument, listens to a human rebuttal and formulates its own rebuttal. But does it pass ...

In 2019 Harish Natarajan took part in a debate with a five-and-a-half-foot tall rectangular computer screen in front of a live audience of about 800 people. The computer was Project Debater, an ...