IBM’s ‘Debater AI’ Loses Debate To Human

Now computer AI can argue with you. IBM again pushes the envelope with its advanced AI software/hardware to take on a champion human debater, but it lost. The next debate may turn out differently. ⁃ TN EditorThe subject under debate was whether the government should subsidize preschools. But the real question was whether a machine called IBM Debater could out-argue a top-ranked human debater.
The answer, on Monday night, was no.Harish Natarajan, the grand finalist at the 2016 Wor