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A human just beat IBM's AI system in a debate

February 13, 2019
IBM's AI competed against human champion Harish Natarajan in a debate. Here are the results.
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· 12 Feb 2019

IBM's AI competed against human champion Harish Natarajan in a debate. Here are the results

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· 12 Feb 2019

IBM's Project Debater, an artificially intelligent robot designed to debate humans, squared off against Harish Natarajan, a grand finalist in the 2016 World Debating Championships

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IBM's AI showed flashes of very homo sapien humor during a debate, but the audience handed victory to its human competitor Harish Natarajan |

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· 12 Feb 2019

Our Principal Analyst attended ’s live debate between 2016 World Debate Grand Finalist Harish Natarajan and IBM’s last night.

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· 12 Feb 2019

Human debate champion defeats IBM's smartest EVER AI-powered machine: London's Harish Natarajan, 31, defeated IBM's Miss Debater in a discussion over subsidising pre-schooling in front of 700 people in a San Francisco lecture theatre.

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· 11 Feb 2019

Very interesting listening to IBM vs human debater at . machine clearly has access to to myriad sources; Harish Natarajan very well spoken, appealing to the need for tough trade-off decisions.

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Harish Natarajan even walks intelligently - I didn't even know that was a thing. He'll need every advantage as he takes on on the topic: " should subsidize pre-school"

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