AI Debater From Bloomberg: A Human Just Triumphed Over IBM’s Six-Year-Old AI Debater. IBM’s machine — known formally as Project Debater — kicked off Monday’s match-up with a cheeky greeting. “I have heard you hold the world record in debate competition wins against humans, but I suspect you have never debated a machine. Welcome to the future.” AI Debater? Hilarious!
AI playing StarCraft From arsTechnica: Last Thursday, DeepMind announced a significant breakthrough. The company pitted its AI, dubbed AlphaStar, against two top StarCraft players—Dario “TLO” Wünsch and Grzegorz “MaNa” Komincz. AlphaStar won a five-game series against Wünsch 5-0, then beat Komincz 5-0, too. Cool stuff, even if it wasn’t totally fair.