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Project Debater

Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions. 

Read more about how Project Debater was developed — by the team that built it — in a brand new peer-reviewed paper on the cover of Nature. 

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Watch the film Join the Reddit AMA

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Project Debater

Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions. 

Read more about how Project Debater was developed — by the team that built it — in a brand new peer-reviewed paper on the cover of Nature. 

Read the paper Listen to the podcast

Watch the film Join the Reddit AMA

That’s Debatable

Watch the limited debate series featuring IBM Watson on Bloomberg.

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Debater to Watson Discovery

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The core technologies that made the Project Debater live event possible are available for commercial use. Debater technologies infused in Watson products include idiom sentiment understanding in Watson NLU, efficient text clustering for topic modeling in Watson Discovery, and user customizable sentence level classification in Watson Discovery.

Key Point Analysis and Narrative Generation are also available as software services through the IBM Research Early Access Program. These technologies were featured in the That's Debatable television series and in the Grammy Debates with Watson backstage experience—summarizing thousands of pro and con arguments contributed by the audience, supporting debate on topics ranging from social issues to pop culture.

The same technologies were also used to analyze the textual input of the IBM Employee Pulse survey with hundreds of thousands of textual answers to multiple open questions.

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IBM Project Debater Visits the UN

Can AI capture the narrative of a global population on a controversial topic? We are bringing IBM Project Debater to the AI for Good Global Summit to find out, and holding an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit on May 20.

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AI helps at Cambrige Debate

Augmenting Humans: IBM’s Project Debater AI gives human debating teams a hand at Cambridge