The debater bots

• Autores: Gilead Amit
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3090, 2016, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Amit opines that machines may have beaten humans at remorselessly logical games like chess and Go, and they are increasingly giving them a run for their money at games of bluff and chance like poker. But no computer has ever come close to beating humans where it counts: in an argument. A machine capable of formulating an argument--not just searching information, but also synthesizing it into more or less reasoned conclusions--would take the search engine to the next level. Such a "research engine" could aid decision-making in arenas from law to medicine to politics. And with an array of ongoing projects looking to build an argumentative streak into AI, it seems only a matter of time before they'll be testing their mettle against silicon here, too