IBM's argumentative AI will help you make decisions

What's going on: The field that works on such systems is called "computational argumentation." This summer, a roomful of journalists watched a demonstration in which two human debaters argued with a talking computer, produced by IBM, that used AI-infused computational argumentation to deliver speeches and rebut its opponents' claims. Axios spoke with six researchers behind IBM's "Project Debater" to learn how it works, and to track the state of the art in language understanding. The context: AI researchers are prone to using games to measure their progress. In 2011, Watson beat a pair of humans at Jeopardy.