This Robot Debates and Cracks Jokes, but It's Still a Toaster
This Robot Debates and Cracks Jokes, but It's Still a Toaster
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 13, 20198m 45s
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Show Notes
The Monolithic black rectangle on stage with luminous, bouncing blue dots at eye level was not Project Debater, IBM’s argumentative artificial intelligence. It was just something for an audience to look at while a voice—is it redundant to call an AI’s synthesized voice “disembodied”?—projected over the sound system of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco.
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