mo4ch:>AI can’t beat a human in a debate (yet), but give it time… | Mo4ch News

Humans everywhere breathed a sigh of relief when an AI called IBM Debater failed to beat a human champion during a yearly test of its argumentative prowess, proving there’s at least one thing we can still do better than machines.World Debating Championship finalist Harish Natarajan outperformed IBM's creation in a debate over whether the government should subsidize preschool education, with judges measuring his accomplishment by the percentage of the audience that changed their minds to agree with him afterwards. Natarajan's performance was all the more impressive given that both he and the computer had only 15 minutes after receiving the topic to prepare their arguments.Natarajan may have successfully defended the Best Debater title for the human race for another year – though IBM's contestant had picked up some new skills since the 2018 Think conference, beefing up its rebuttals and learning how to deliver a parallel argument – but he's a world-record holder for the …