IBM has opened its AI tool Project Debater up to the public for the first time.
The news: The Project Debater program uses AI software to parse text to construct arguments. It’s the basis for a crowdsourced debating platform called Speech by Crowd, being showcased at CES in Las Vegas today. This collects views for and against a proposition and then crafts a speech for each side, based on the submissions. The system will go up against a world champion debater at the THINK 2019 conference in San Francisco in February.
Background: IBM Research has been working on the AI software that powers Project Debater since 2011, as a follow-on from the project that prepared its Watson system to play Jeopardy!, and first unveiled it in June 2017.
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