In a dispute, as you know, the truth is born. But this is only the case if the parties agree with each other’s arguments, without turning the dialogue into a farce. And if the dispute people can prevail emotions, the emotions of the alien machines. More interesting is the fact that in the United States in San Francisco not so long ago hosted the first debate of human and AI. The latter, in defending his position, was based on the facts and given various arguments.
New AI developed by IBM forces since 2011 and is speaking for itself the name of the Project Debater. And, interestingly, over the 5 years Project Debater debated not only in AI, but in an argument with the person first entered only in 2016. As stated by one of the project leaders and a member of the IBM Research Noam Slonim,
“When the discussions touched on a particular topic, artificial intelligence scans huge volumes of research papers and data media on the availability of suitable assumptions and arguments that will help support his point of view and the debate itself as a whole.”
During the debate in San Francisco is the opponent AI was made by Israeli presenter is Dan Zafir. The topic of discussion was the following: “Should the state allocate grants space exploration, and telemedicine.” Project Debater quoted a number of sources: from the words of Shaykh UAE (United Arab Emirates) to the official statistics of the Ministry of economy of Germany. AI also raised issues concerning the availability of jobs in the areas under discussion. Watching the process, the audience decided that one of the debates, the AI gained the upper hand over man. However, the AI for the debate is still imperfect. For example, according to witnesses, he sometimes led a completely incoherent argument and never quoted opponent in dispute that in the present debate often brings a positive result.
Created artificial intelligence, whose main purpose is to argue with the man
Vladimir Kuznetsov