12 new Project Debater AI technologies available as cloud APIs

Argumentation and debating are fundamental capabilities of our human intelligence. Until recently, they have been totally out of reach of AI. In February 2019 and after six years of work by natural language processing and machine learning researchers and engineers, an IBM AI dubbed Project Debater became the first AI system able to debate humans over complex topics. And while it may not have'won' the sparring against debate champion Harish Natarajan in San Francisco that year, Project Debater demonstrated how AI could help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions. The AI became the third in the series of IBM Research AI's grand challenges, following Deep Blue and Watson.