Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.
A large group of journalists and IBM employees sit quietly while a black monolith (yes, like the one found in 2001: A Space Odyssey) with a display shows three animated blue balls floating in front and behind each other. The assembled humans are waiting for Project Debater to state its rebuttal. It's arguing for government-subsidized space exploration. It's parsing the four-minute opening remarks of 2016 Israeli national debate champion Noa Ovadia. It's thinking, and its reply is impressive but not always natural.
Project Debater - Speech by Crowd is a new and experimental cloud-based AI platform for crowd-sourcing decision support. It uses the core AI behind Project Debater to collect free-text arguments from large audiences on debatable topics and automatically construct persuasive viewpoints to support or contest the topic. Watch to find out how it works.
IBM’s Project Debater - What it is, how it works, what it means
Dec 5, 2019
For me, project debater is one of the most amazing use cases of AI. In this conversation I talk to Dan Lahav (a researcher and computer scientist in the IBM project debater team) and Harish Natarajan (a world leading debater who competed against the machine) about the amazing debating AI developed by IBM. We explore what project debater is, how capable it is, how it feels to debate against a machine, what the use cases are beyond the debating competition.
“The Debater” tells the story of an eclectic team of researchers that dare to take AI into uncharted territory — the world of human discourse. It explores what it means to live in a world where AI helps us make better decisions, particularly in the era of fake news and ideology echo chambers.