Can You Beat AI in an Argument?

It wasn’t long ago that Google’s Duplex made headlines for an unsettling demonstration in which its AI tricked an innocent human into thinking that it was human as well. Not to be one-upped, IBM has revealed an AI capable of arguing — and maybe even sometimes winning against humans. Holding Its Own Headquartered an hour […]
IBM’s Watson Ventures Into the Internet of Things

We all first heard of IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, when the machine challenged Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings to a game and won by a landslide. Known as one of the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers, IBM is now pivoting Watson to create Watson Assistant (WA): an AI assistant created to work with the Internet of […]