From what I read it can only engage in very specific topics of debate. That indicates it was mostly trained to convert natural language into appropriate queries, pool relevant/provided data together and translate it back as a natural language response. In terms of applications, at best it would function as an automated propagandist which could be integrated into search engines and digital assistants in the future.
Project Debator
Ryan Bailey
Jack Hernandez
You stupid commie say there is "not much difference" between 14h this 12h that just in order to push your incredibly stupid narrative, so why you assume there is any real difference between shoveling grovel for 14 hours nonstop and 8 hour office job? Can you prove they are different? I don't think you've done any of those, so you can't claim you know first hand about the experience.
Christian Sanchez
Libtards totally owned! Praise kek!
#MAGA
Jacob Price
You're confusing rote learning with meaningful/associative learning.
Julian Jenkins
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Thomas Hughes
A "machine debator" isn't really that impressive when most online content is generated according to standardized formats and sticks with the same core terms and phrases. Fact is the level of discourse has fallen so hard, making a machine autogenerate headlines (and debate them) is probably going to give better answers than humans looking to fill in a clickbait wordathon spreadsheet.
That said it's notable that IBM did it by voice and not by text, a clear PR stunt so normies can just watch it and the answers can be less accurate/coherent than if they were submitted as text. Just look at Trump's nonsensical responses to questions, building a machine that can debate like a TV pundit or star is not difficult. Building a machine that can debate topics in a serious, coherent manner is not.
Christopher Murphy
How is knowledge created, if all we can do is repeat?
We learn also by combining knowledge together.
No facts ever stand on themselves. They are always framed in a specific context. And we always interpret them taking our previously learned ideas into account.
And through this, the smart ones are also able to interpret the same things through different ideological frameworks.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it" t. Aristotle
Samuel Ward
But knowledge is not created.
Cameron Mitchell
Are you a christian?
Landon Collins
Quite the contrary, I am a materialist, and a monist. To think knowledge is created implies that our mind creates anything, but what we really do is to interpret what already exist. The laws of physics were not invented, they have always existed.