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Debate champion Harish Natarajan participates in a live debate with IBM’s artificial intelligence technology during the company’s Think 2019 conference in February 2019. Credit: Jane Tyska
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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 artificial intelligence system designed by IBM. Natarajan is a globally recognized debate champion. And the topic at hand was whether or not preschool should be subsidized.
Based on an audience vote, Project Debater lost the contest. But the “it” present held its own, forming logical opening statements. And in 2018 Project Debater won one debate and almost tied in another. Still, the system is fully capable of sounding awkward during an argument-and-rebuttal with an opponent.
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In 2011, shortly after IBM’s Watson defeated Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter to become the reigning “Jeopardy” champion, the researchers behind the supercomputer decided to expand its vocabulary by introducing it to the web-based Urban Dictionary. A crowdsourced collection of slang and cultural phrases, the Urban Dictionary did its job a little too well. Soon, Watson was swearing up a storm and had to be restored to its previous unhip state.
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Scandal got canceled?) we re secretly loving the trivia game shows that are currently occupying their time slots!
When
Jeopardy! hosted their Greatest of All Time tournament, I got really into it. In fact, I loved how much grief Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter gave each other during the tournament that I ended up following all three of them on Twitter. Long after Ken Jennings won the title, the three of them continue to through social media digs at each other whenever they can. So naturally ABC that the reunited for ABC s revival of