4 ms·
There is an article claiming that an AI held its own against a human in a debate. But the supplied video gives just a few seconds of canned material which could
by wbhart 8y ago
There is an article claiming that an AI held its own against a human in a debate. But the supplied video gives just a few seconds of canned material which could apply to any debate. Am I missing a video somewhere? Even on their website they don't seem to want to show an actual debate so that we can judge for ourselves whether it "held its own".
- wbhart 8y agoIt turns out there are some longer videos on YouTube, though also curiously cut down sufficiently far that a lot of it is without context, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkSzmnA1CQQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkSzmnA1CQQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIY1uSxL-qQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIY1uSxL-qQ But now I am suspicious that it always debates the same people (they make reference to having worked with the machine for over a year). If that is the case, then they know precisely what to say to trigger certain canned responses (it makes jokes that were quite obviously well-planned by a human). The rest of the material seems to just be content culled from online documents and read out by the machine. The achievement here, if there is one, is to parse online material and decide which snippets support a given argument and which don't.
- dforrestwilson 8y agoTypical IBM marketing > reality