This Robot Debates and Cracks Jokes, but It's Still a Toaster
b'The Monolithic black rectangle on stage with luminous, bouncing blue dots at eye level was not Project Debater, IBM\\u2019s argumentative artificial intelligence. It was just something for an audience to look at while a voice\\u2014is it redundant to call an AI\\u2019s synthesized voice \\u201cdisembodied\\u201d?\\u2014projected over the sound system of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'