So, AI Thinks It Can Debate

A debater’s reaction to Project Debater’s debating debut

By MARTIN REZNY

The future is truly here — Project Debater is another IBM’s attempt to defeat puny humans at one of their talking games, after Watson dominated Jeopardy. Sounds to me like the in-between step should have been a project naming AI, but I digress. If you haven’t seen the first historic debate between a human and an AI, I…