Persuasion Is a Fundamentally Human Thing

This week we meet project debater through the people who created and debated her. A computer programme that can not only pull information about some topic, but also somehow turn that into persuasive arguments. Is persuasion still fundamentally human? Or is what project debater is doing just as much persuasion as anything else you or i could do? We'll take a look at project debater's struggles in the early days, how it tried to crack the code of debates, and what happened when it went head to against human debaters in public events. Then we'll explore what nero science tells us about whether persuasion is fundamentally human, or whether it's something a machine is truly capable of dance.