IBM develops AI that can debut with human almost in real time

In the event that IBM held in San Francisco, we released a system called " Project Debater " where people and AI debate. The goal of Project Debater is "to follow the standard rules of debate and to respond to humans", and when the agenda is presented without prior preparation, understand the agenda from the opponent's speech and conversation by huge information gathering A state showing the establishment is made public in the movie.

IBM Research | Project Debater
http://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/project-debater/

What it's like to watch an IBM AI successfully debate humans - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/18/17477686/ibm-project-debater-ai

You can see the movie from below.

AI Learns the Art of Debate - YouTube


"What we are aiming for is to show that machines and humans can do value and meaningful discussions," IBM researcher Noam Slonim said.

The event venue looks like this. The human debater on the left side and the IBM debate system on the right side are arranged, and the display shows the remaining time of the speech. We will show how much real debate can be done by AI and humans in time.

"Computer systems present facts and can participate in conversation and decision-making by doing different forms of discussion with humans," researcher Ranit Aharanov said.

It was 2012 that IBM researchers created an AI system that can debate. In 2018, technology has greatly improved.

"Hello, Dan. Dan Zafrir, a deveter who can talk to the debate system, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to come here today.

Information will not be given to the debate system before the debate and it will try to understand the concept through the debate itself.

"When I analyzed the data, I think that I should subsidize music education," a debate system stating.

When the debate system begins speech, understand the agenda from the components of the sentence ... ...

We start collecting information on the possible agenda while deleting extra things.

"This system continues to evolve," he said.

Hayah Eicheler of the devereter said, "I have opinions about everything that IBM's debate system is all over the world, but they do not pay taxes, but we are paying taxes," he said, swiftly ... ...

"You are talking at an extremely fast rate of 218 words per minute, you do not need to hurry so much", Tsukkomi from the debate system.

Venue where laughter leaks in spite.

Technology will allow decision makers to gain more information and make decisions, Slonim said.

Dieter Bohn, who actually participated in the event, said that he was "very impressive". There are hundreds of billions of papers accumulating in the system's database of data about 100 fields, and when debate begins, it takes time to examine the data for a few minutes, but then a short speech will be briefed on the point of discussion. There seems to be some clear quotes, some quotations, and others that apparently "pulled out of the article" is the point. In particular, Mr. Bohn was surprised by the fact that AI was able to debate in a position opposed to human divers in "almost real-time", skeptical that "AI could deprive work" I was worried for the first time.