A look at IBM's Project Debater, an AI system that struggled to persuade a human audience in its first public debate despite excelling in analysis of evidence (Benjamin Wallace-Wells/New Yorker)

Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
A look at IBM's Project Debater, an AI system that struggled to persuade a human audience in its first public debate despite excelling in analysis of evidence  —  I.B.M. taught a machine to debate policy questions.  What can it teach us about the limits of rhetorical persuasion?