IBM's Watson Can Now Argue For You

Watson IBM IBM's Watson supercomputer has already mastered Jeopardy! and can even whip up an innovative recipe. Next step: it'll be elected to the presidency after dominating against humans in a series of debates. The computer's new Debater function is what it sounds like: after being given a topic, Watson will mine millions of Wikipedia articles until it determines the pros and cons of a controversial topic, and will the enumerate the merits of both sides. Argument over. Move along. Or, maybe n...