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 playing and began to brainstorm the next feat to challenge an artificial intelligence algorithm. They decided to create an AI algorithm that would be trained on the art of debate.
This past June, a small group of viewers got to see the IBM Project Debater’s public debut and its first two debates, when it went head-to-head with Israeli debaters Dan Zafrir and Noa Ovadia on increased investment in telemedicine and government subsidies for space exploration respectively. From all accounts, IBM Project Debater was a formidable opponent and surprised many with its ability to make human-like arguments. It even swayed more audience members to its position on telemedicine that Zafrir did.
This project was the latest in IBM Research’s goal to build a system “that helps people make evidence-based decisions when answers aren’t black-and-white.” Debate not only helps us convince others of our opinion, but it can help us understand and learn from other’s views. By training machines in this way, it is hoped that in the future, AI algorithms will be able to help humans make important decisions regularly. IBM Project Debater doesn’t just search its database of millions of articles from well-known newspapers and magazines—its corpus—but it has AI technology that can “work with humans to discover, reason and present new points of view.”
The IBM Research team was able to create an algorithm with the ability to:
- Generate an opinion driven by data
- Listen and understand an opponent, parsing out the critical bits of data from flowing narrative
- Express the situation and arguments with concise language and complete human-like sentences
Even though there were visible stumbling blocks in IBM Project Debater’s debating skills, for the most part, its debut was a resounding success. Since it’s gone from theory to actual implementation, albeit with some tweaks still necessary, it makes you wonder what’s next.
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