IBM's newest AI project could be your next debate partner

Vivian Sachs for IBM Research By Dario Gil, vice president of AI research and IBM Q Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing steadily — but how can we measure those gains in human terms? To gauge AI’s progress, we can point to a handful of milestones: In 1997, Deep Blue defeated grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a chess match. In 2011, IBM Watson challenged "Jeopardy!" champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter on the game show. In both of these examples, computers were programmed to learn from eac...