How Confident Are You That We Could Do This?

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"I was kind of proud of being, of being the first one to lose that machine," he says. "It took a while, like, like a long while, but eventually the system started to get better." It stopped making such simple mistakes, and it was actually able to hold its own in a debate. And after many years of work, it seemed like they were finally on to something".

This episode, featuring Andy Luttrell of the Opinion Science Podcast, is all about a machine, built by IBM, that can debate human beings on any issue, which leads to the question: is persuasion, with language, using arguments, and the ability to alter another person’s attitudes, beliefs, values, opinions, and behavior a uniquely human phenomenon, or could you be persuaded to change your mind by an artificial intelligence designed to do just that? If so, what does that say about opinions, our arguments, and in the end, our minds?

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