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Biden vows to cut US CO2 emissions in half The US president, Joe Biden, pledged to reduce America’s carbon emissions by 50%-52% of 2005 levels before 2030. That is double the commitment Washington made under the Paris climate agreement (which Donald Trump rescinded). Biden made the pledge during a virtual Earth Day summit attended by 40 world leaders, where he warned that “time is short”. Biden stated: “This is the decade that we must make decisions to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis.” Sources: CNBC, DW, The Guardian, Marketwatch and NPR. Musk outlines $100m carbo...

Debating, held in high regard since the time of the Ancient Greeks (and even before that), has a new participant. It’s not quite as eloquent and sharp as the likes of Socrates or Cicero, but it can hold its own against some debaters — hinting at a future where AI can understand and formulate complex arguments with ease. An autonomous debating system In 2019, an unusual debate was held in San Francisco. The topic of the debate was “We should subsidize preschool”, and it featured Harish Natarajan, a 2016 World Debating Championships Grand Finalist and 2012 European Debate Champion. His ...

Scientific American By Pakinam Amer on March 17, 2021 Print Today on the Science Talk podcast, Noam Slonim of IBM Research speaks to Scientific American about an impressive feat of computer engineering: an AI-powered autonomous system that can engage in complex debate with humans over issues ranging from subsidizing preschool and the merit of space exploration to the pros and cons of genetic engineering.  Nature paper, Slonim and his colleagues show that across 80 debate topics, Project Debater’s computational argument technology has performed very decently—with a human audience being...

Print Debate champion Harish Natarajan participates in a live debate with IBM’s artificial intelligence technology during the company’s Think 2019 conference in February 2019. Credit: Jane Tyska Advertisement In 2019 Harish Natarajan took part in a debate with a five-and-a-half-foot tall rectangular computer screen in front of a live audience of about 800 people. The computer was Project Debater, an artificial intelligence system designed by IBM. Natarajan is a globally recognized debate champion. And the topic at hand was whether or not preschool should be subsidized. Based on an audien...

IBM Positioned as a Leader in Two Newly Released Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports - Businesses across industries such as AMC Theatres and Submergence Group adopting IBM Watson as part of their digital transformation - Strong pipeline of innovations from IBM Research to IBM Watson in key areas of natural language processing, automation and trust News provided by Share this article Share this article ARMONK, N.Y., March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that global research firm Gartner has positioned IBM as a Leader in two newly published Gartner Magic Quadrant reports: th...