For me the AI got to the point where it just became rather dogmatic, and wasn’t able to see the shortcomings in its’ argument that I was pointing out to it, and

For me the AI got to the point where it just became rather dogmatic, and wasn’t able to see the shortcomings in its’ argument that I was pointing out to it, and then declared itself the winner. So given that I’d say it was able to provide a rather high fidelity simulation of the real world debating experience.