IBM's Jeopardy-Winning AI Is Now Ready to Debate You

As long as there have been personal computers, there have been people yelling at them. And before that, angry couch potatoes argued with their TV sets. Now artificial intelligence technology that IBM has been developing over the past six years can give the machines a chance to argue back. The company took the wraps off an AI system Monday that it calls Project Debater, staging a couple of debates between it and experienced human debaters that show how far its capabilities have come. IBM, which has been staging in-house debates between humans and Project Debater for a few years, said the demonstration represented the first such public debate.