An earlier debate, for example, showed Project Debater arguing that US schools should be subsidized against a champion human debater who took the opposite position.
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The "natural language processing" technology was developed for IBM Research's Project Debater, the AI machine that became the first to compete against a world class human debater last year.
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" She found her tribe as a competitive debater — at 22, she was the top debater in Europe — and settled into what she would later describe as "an analytic way of living.
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Project Debater in San Francisco In the previous debate held in San Francisco in February, Project Debater failed to deliver convincing rebuttals in a debate about whether preschool should be subsidized.
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" I read the email: "They're looking for a debater.
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It's about her career as a college debater, and how she became the No. 1 competitive debater on the continent of Europe before she quit, disgusted by the amorality of the whole process.
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Pence is a much better, more polished debater than Trump.
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So his model debater should be Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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Biden has in the past been a very effective debater.
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Unlike Trump, Clinton is a very shrewd and talented debater.
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Clinton is a masterful debater and steeped deep in policy.
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Biden is not as good a debater as his rivals.
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The second type of debater is better at the big picture.
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The Democratic candidate will not be facing a polite, intelligent debater.
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I was a terrible debater, but that was better than nothing.
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A violinist, a debater, a singer in the a cappella choir.
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Klobuchar, like Harris, is also a strong debater, Clyburn pointed out.
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No. Cruz is a skilled debater, but he doesn't really exude manliness.
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John Kasich, usually an unremarkable debater, tries to challenge both of them.
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But she's a good debater: Now that polls have evened, that backfired.
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Project Debater responds that space is awesome and good for the economy.
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Project Debater had different motivations in its algorithms, but not that different.
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Gingrich, while an effective debater, would undermine Trump's message as an outsider.
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Cruz has been a national-caliber debater since he was a teenager.
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Clinton, a skilled debater, was able to easily parry Monday night. Mrs.
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This debater was crisp, calm and cogent through the entire two hours.
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We didn't know for sure that [Project Debater] was going to work.
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Buttigieg's content and presentation easily made him the best debater Tuesday night.
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"Greetings, Harish," Project Debater began, speaking in a mainly monotonous, female voice.
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He was a state champion debater in high school and class valedictorian.
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For a first-time debater, Steyer largely managed to hold his own.
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Even in better times earlier this cycle, Biden was an indifferent debater.
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With only a few minutes of speaking time per debater, each minute counts.
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Mr. Cruz, a pugnacious, polished debater as a Princeton undergraduate, gave no quarter.
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She was also a debater, so she would want me to debate that.
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I don&apost think he is a very effective debater on the facts.
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Especially if you used to be a policy debater or ever learned shorthand.
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He was a top-flight debater in high school and, later, at Harvard.
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Clinton proved to be a skilled debater during the Democratic primary against Sen.
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John Kasich Kasich, a more uneven debater than Cruz, had a respectable night.
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Biden is still a formidable debater, and he has weathered attacks so far.
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He was not a particularly skilled debater, and did not win every debate.
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No debater, no matter how silver-tongued, could possibly take on Amber Ruffin.
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" In a pair of tweets, Trump called Bloomberg a "terrible debater and speaker.
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Chris Christie Christie is a strong debater, and he showed that once again.
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Project Debater shows how AI systems have become increasingly flexible in recent years.
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In the past, he's been a shaky debater under a front-runner's scrutiny.
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For all his experience, Biden has been an indifferent debater in this campaign.
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Across nine previous encounters, Sanders has been the most consistent debater on stage.
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Perhaps the process will make him a better debater the next time around.
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He is a formidable debater and political operator who speaks with a laser focus.
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A little advice for a debater: If you don't like the questions, don't quit.
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She was a formidable debater, making a compelling, passionate case for unity and pragmatism.
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When posed by the debater, they simply aren't a reason to vote for him.
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She's an Iraq War veteran, a young woman of color, and a strong debater.
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In the 2008 race, he was a more vivid and genial debater than Obama.
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That was a key part of what the IBM Debater was doing, he said.
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That aside, Sanders is a good debater who is adept at staying on-message.
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He certainly wasn't the strongest debater on stage, but he didn't need to be.
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By high school, Burke leveraged his intelligence and charisma to become a competitive debater.
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Only 4 percent of respondents put billionaire Tom Steyer as the top-performing debater.
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Clinton is a skilled debater and prevaricator, but even she can't evade the obvious here.
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"We'll do 90 minutes," said Mr. Cruz, who was an accomplished debater at Princeton University.
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Cruz is a champion debater, and he had to have known this question was coming.
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If Trump takes Ailes's advice to heart, he'll be a debater to be reckoned with.
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But Cruz handled it with humor and demonstrated why he is considered a gifted debater.
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And Morrisey is from out of state and isn't a very impressive orator or debater.
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A former California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney, she is a skilled debater.
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This has been, for multiple reasons, to Clinton's advantage as a debater and a campaigner.
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Just a great debater except he lost in every single poll in every single debate.
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Bloomberg proved a bad debater, slower and clumsier on stage than his campaign-hardened peers.
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How each debater performs Wednesday night could have a large impact on their campaign's trajectory.
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Rezo attributes that skill to his upbringing, which he said made him a skilled debater.
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To the delight of the audience, Project Debater even managed to crack a few jokes.
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Editor's note: An earlier version of this article said Project Debater was developed by IBM Watson.
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If it's about requiring that people do something, the debater can warn of a resulting backlash.
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Trump topped Clinton 251% to 258% as the debater who spent more time attacking their opponent.
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Donald Trump is a self-proclaimed great debater who won every one of the Republican debates.
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Project Debater, whose job was to respond directly to those points, didn't quite rebut them directly.
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Their speaking styles are as different as their politics: a great debater against a great evader.
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Ted Cruz manages to parse his falsehoods with the precision of a master debater and attorney.
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Clinton, meanwhile, is a cool and accomplished debater but can come across as dull or dispassionate.
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Chris Christie, an early Trump supporter and skilled debater, is reportedly involved in the debate preparations.
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He is the valedictorian of his class, a precocious and skilled debater and a champion athlete.
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It didn't help that, by Hickenlooper's own admission, he's a mediocre debater and erratic public speaker.
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Both candidates have a charismatic television presence and Harris, a former prosecutor, is a formidable debater.
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Clinton, known to be a talented debater, could face a different standard as a career politician.
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On Wednesday, the tech giant announced it will begin offering clients applications based on Project Debater.
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"If you look at the guts of what's inside Debater, it's all around language," Thomas said.
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Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college.
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In a highly unusual public debate attended by hundreds of eager onlookers, IBM pitted a female-voiced AI system, formally known as Project Debater but lovingly nicknamed Miss Debater, against Harish Natarajan, a debate champion who's racked up more wins than any other person in the world.
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Tori had been a talented anime artist, and she was the best debater I had ever known.
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Mr. Bush improved somewhat as a debater, but he never seemed to dominate the heavily watched encounters.
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Second, Mr. Cruz, the smooth-talking, polished debater, is at the core just another double-talking politician.
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"I heard he was a great debater, but I beat him in the last debate," Trump said.
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After discussing as a class, students might write a response to a debater with whom they disagree.
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Klobuchar proved to be a skilled debater, and a Midwestern presence would benefit both Biden and Sanders.
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" Megan McArdle, Washington Post: "Warren is by far the best and most articulate debater of this cycle.
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" — Adrienne Elrod, former senior adviser to Hillary Clinton "Biden is the most improved debater of this cycle.
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The debate showed that Project Debater could work out whether submissions were for or against the motion.
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" Reality check: The debater, while handy at marshaling and conveying arguments, is not *intelligent" in a human sense.
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Clinton, known to be a talented debater, has been judged by a different standard as a career politician.
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Mr. O'Rourke, who was not an especially strong debater in his Senate campaign, appeared badly caught off guard.
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Cruz, a champion debater from his days at Princeton University, was mainly on offense at the first debate.
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But she is a solid and experienced debater who knows the workings of American government inside and out.
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The Massachusetts Democrat, a former professor, is known in Democratic circles as a formidable debater with stage presence.
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He knows Dutch parliamentary politics inside and out, tends to be well-informed, and is a strong debater.
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And Mr. Slonim acknowledged that IBM Debater was not a direct path to a new product or service.
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But Mr. Cruz, known as a skilled tactician and debater, is still the clear favorite in the race.
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She also describes transition as "the final nail in the coffin" of her hopes of becoming a public debater.
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Among Trump's backers, 78% think he will emerge as the better debater and 18% expect Clinton to fare better.
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Here was the scene: a human debater was arguing against the notion that the government should subsidize space exploration.
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Project Debater is, as its name suggests, software that engages in formal, you-go-then-I-go staged debates.
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Back in June, when my colleague Tom Simonite wrote about its introduction, Project Debater was a halting, infantile thing.
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Clinton on the other hand is a seasoned debater, who has gone up against Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.
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If he is now judged to be an unsteady debater, that argument may be holed below the water line.
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The bad: In a possibly callous slip-up, Project Debater deemed space exploration more important than better health care.
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Past debates in the race suggest that Sanders is the more skilled and effective debater of the two men.
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Bush, a tested debater, policy expert and former Florida governor, tried to provoke Trump, but he was left sputtering.
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And so we've taken a number of components out of Debater and put those into the core Watson products.
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Eventually Bloomberg settled in and gained momentum, becoming a stronger debater as the event rolled into the second hour.
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Throughout the campaign, Mr. Biden has often been a shaky debater under the scrutiny of a front-runner's spotlight.
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Even so, Clinton is an experienced debater who could shine in the three presidential clashes that have been scheduled.
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She is a political veteran, a fierce debater and perhaps the ablest campaigner in the entire French political spectrum.
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After three debates -- and it's early yet -- Senator Warren might just be the consistently best presidential debater I've evaluated.
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" My son who is 13 is a champion debater and he goes, "Mom, what about men who get harassed?
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The idea of watching the champion of white supremacy get shot down by a brilliant black debater had great appeal.
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But IBM says the debater is more of a proof-of-concept at this stage, without a current marketing plan.
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About 13 in 10 said they thought Obama would be the better debater over both John McCain and Mitt Romney.
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Indeed the very fact that Trump is widely seen as the lesser debater against Clinton is why he'll probably win.
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A talented debater, Ms Raggi illustrates how Italy's second-biggest political group is increasingly coming to resemble a normal party.
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Despite not being a great TV debater, however, Macron has shown during the campaign that he can stay on message.
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The reaction among the faithful after the debate fiasco was that Marion would have been a much more capable debater.
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Toomey believes he's a good debater, and I think he believes Katie McGinty's weaknesses can be exposed in a debate.
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If Aristotle could've seen Miss Debater in action, he probably would have said it was lacking in the pathos department.
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"If Trump had picked me, Hillary would have needed a good debater, for sure," Mr. Gingrich said in an interview.
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The former Speaker recently said Donald Trump is the best debater he's ever seen," Conway said on ABC's "This Week.
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Previous debates involving Project Debater have seen the machine single-handedly take on an opposing human expert on a topic.
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And he was a good debater but he didn't do well in the debates against me, according to every poll.
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IBM's Project Debater became a hit last year when the technology took part in its first verbal showdowns with humans.
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Now, businesses using IBM's Watson AI platform will have access to national language processing tools based on the Debater project.
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She is a formidable and aggressive debater, respected by opponents for her communication skills and her grip on policy details.
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Mr Sanders, though as ever an accomplished debater of his chosen economic issues, sounded weary and scored no new points.
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As any scholastic debate coach knows, good questions are ones that provide each debater with the same difficulty and opportunity.
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Mr. Cruz, a decorated college debater with a contentious streak, clearly loved his time in a workplace rife with ideological differences.
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The young, standoffish minister's popularity was low amongst his contemporaries, but he was also known as an adept debater and administrator.
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The idea for creating "Project Debater" came after IBM's Watson supercomputer beat two human quizmasters on a "Jeopardy" challenge in 2011.
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He excelled as a debater, and he and his partner were named the top debate team in the country one year.
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Clinton wore on Sunday was almost indistinguishable from those of Mr. Sanders and the other debater, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley.
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It also threatened to undermine his claim that he would be the best Democrat to take on Trump -- a ferocious debater.
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Not only did he have eight years of experience as vice president, he also had a reputation as a skilled debater.
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The debate Macron has agreed to debate Le Pen, herself a master debater, five days before the second-round voting Sunday.
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He is every bit the Harvard master debater, the professional politician he claims not to be and denounces at every opportunity.
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Clinton is an accomplished debater, and there is no question that she upped my candidate's game and her own over time.
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Castro showed in the first round he can be a formidable debater when he went after Texas rival and former Rep.
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She is no longer the young law professor researching bankruptcy cheats, or the freshman debater who called her Democratic friend subversive.
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For starters, it'll be the first time that Biden faces off directly with Sanders, who many see as a good debater.
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Paul said Biden, despite his recent string of victories, has revealed himself to be an unsteady public speaker and weak debater.
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Ted Cruz and another Republican, it was Sanders's idea to invite Klobuchar to appear as his co-debater at the event.
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The Detroit debates were heavy on policy, helping to highlight the breadth of Warren's proposals and her fluency as a debater.
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As a former debater whose life and entire way of thinking were changed through debate, I want to offer a rebuttal.
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WINNERS * Pete Buttigieg: The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor proved Tuesday night that he is the best debater in this field.
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At the previous debate, Project Debater was given 15 minutes to process 400 million documents, including academic journals and news articles.
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He is not a good debater, is inarticulate, seems to be confused and out of touch, and makes numerous gaffes. Sen.
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Bush pollster Matthew Dowd told journalists the Massachusetts senator was "the best debater since Cicero," referring to the Roman philosopher and orator.
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The Monolithic black rectangle on stage with luminous, bouncing blue dots at eye level was not Project Debater, IBM's argumentative artificial intelligence.
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Donald Trump, by contrast, is a rude and bullying debater who rambles and lacks even the most basic grasp of federal policy.
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But I don't ever remember being booed during a debate the way the supposed "best debater" and former national champion just was.
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Instead, it was a deft debater in Gingrich jousting with a former attorney in Kelly, who knows how to counter when challenged.
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Oh, you might be a good person, or a good bowler, or a good debater; but you won't be a good American.
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John Kasich Kasich has been rising in some polls in New Hampshire, but he has been an uneven debater throughout this cycle.
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Zimbabwe's society struggled under Mugabe's rule "He is a debater, he is a thinker, he argues intelligently, he can philosophize," Mukonori said.
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The good: Project Debater got consistently high marks from the audience for thoughtful arguments that were packed full of facts and quotations.
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IBM's Project Debater became a hit last year after the groundbreaking AI technology took part in its first public debates with humans.
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While waiting for the final vote, Natarajan said it was interesting that Project Debater could contextualize information and pull details from research.
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Sanders, never the most nimble debater, let it go—it was an unquestioned win for Clinton, a rarity for her on economic policy.
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Warren, a seasoned debater, has flexed her familiarity with the debate stage -- will she use her rhetorical talents to go after Biden directly?
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Ms. Hamblin, an award-winning debater in high school, said she had always thought she would go straight to a four-year school.
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An avid debater, he joined a panel on California's Proposition 187, a ballot initiative passed in 1994 denying government services to illegal immigrants.
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Sanders, who is closest to Biden in the polls, remains an often-witty debater who never wavers from his message about democratic socialism.
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As for the AI, the only sign of "thinking" was three spinning blue circles on the tall black box that is Miss Debater.
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The fact that Miss Debater lost the match-up may have been due in part to the lack of emotion in its delivery.
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A skillful debater and political operator, he runs on a right-left coalition composed of the PAN, the PRD and the Citizens' Movement.
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It wasn't a well-framed query — many candidates demand recounts or challenge initial results — and a more agile debater might have pushed back.
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Kaine also — like Clinton last week — was the better rehearsed and prepared debater tonight, with a specific game plan going into the debate.
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Buttigieg has shown himself to be a prolific fundraiser and skilled debater, but his support in the polls appears to be leveling off.
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The details: IBM's Project Debater sparred with two world-class human debaters in front of an audience, which later ranked each debater's performance.
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But Mr. Trump's lack of facility as a one-on-one debater was glaring at times, such as his inability to challenge Mrs.
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Dr Noam Slonim, one of the men behind Project Debater, told Business Insider it could one day have applications in government and business.
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For the Cambridge debate, Dr Slonim said Debater was fed more than 1,100 opinions on the topic through an anonymous submissions form online.
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But for all of the praise that pundits have heaped on his skills as a debater, Cruz did not emerge as the winner.
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Biden's also an uninspiring campaigner and a terrible debater, which doesn't bode well in a head-to-head matchup with President Donald Trump.
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Mr. Paslow, 61, is a soft-spoken college graduate, Mr. Peterson, 103, a visceral debater who chose work straight out of high school.
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Project Debater, as the IBM (IBM) machine is known, took part in the debate at the Cambridge Union featuring both computers and humans.
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"Champion debater" crap aside, Cruz's instinct under pressure is to curl into a ball and pray the other guys are swept away first.
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He expresses himself in the orderly paragraphs of a former high-school debater, but with deft comic timing and a gift for shtick.
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And Warren is a skilled debater, turning issue after issue to her critique of money in politics and inequality in the United States.
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The Massachusetts senator and former Harvard Law School professor is a formidable debater in general but she was especially focused and forceful Wednesday.
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But a better debater is someone who can agree with somebody, but also have more points to refute and rebut and go against.
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The "Project Debater," system is a 5-foot-tall machine shaped like a monolith with TV screens on its sides and a female voice.
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Some of the pros of "Project Debater" include its ability to collect data and create detailed supporting evidence at a faster rate than humans.
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They painted Vice President Al Gore as a debater of such skill that he would almost certainly bury the Republican in their first debate.
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So the question is: did Project Debater simply not understand the criteria, or did it understand and choose not to engage on those terms?
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And, on the government side, Michael Gove, secretary of state for agriculture, proved, yet again, that he is the best debater in the House.
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IBM's demo of Project Debater comes a month after Google released audio of a bot called Duplex booking restaurants and haircuts over the phone.
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Biden could prove to be a strong debater who brings people together if he is able to deal with Booker in a tactful way.
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And Carson doesn't present a unifying thesis, so he's not a single-issue debater (such as Sanders is with campaign finance/Wall Street greed).
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Trump has said that he won't need much preparation to beat Clinton, a Yale-trained lawyer who has a reputation as a skilled debater.
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Or, from the perspective of a debater: If you start off with a seemingly unpopular position, you're more likely to wind up gaining support.
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Cruz has a long experience as a debater, and Republicans are generally cheered when he gets out of their faces and onto the podium.
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Let's not get swept up by the actions of an effective debater over the accomplishments of a compassionate leader, who admittedly has made mistakes.
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"Trump is not actually a good debater, and this format, one on one, with a strong moderator, will be terrible for him," he said.
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But Thomas and the team knew a tool like Project Debater that could help cluster documents would amplify the platform for the consulting giant.
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Buttigieg is, without question, the most naturally gifted debater in the Democratic field, meaning he is simply not going to turn in a clunker.
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"Mini Mike Bloomberg doesn't get on the Democrat Debate Stage because he doesn't want to — he is a terrible debater and speaker," Trump tweeted.
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Rooney turns out to be as intelligent and agile a novelist as she apparently was a debater, and for many of the same reasons.
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Bloomberg is a seasoned political debater, and he will be looking to capitalize on his momentum and establish himself as a frontrunner alongside Sen.
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WASHINGTON — Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, a presidential hopeful, acknowledged Thursday that he's "not a great debater" and explained his viral "wave" moment with Sen.
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Axios spoke with six researchers behind IBM's "Project Debater" to learn how it works, and to track the state of the art in language understanding.
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Eyes will be on Trump and on whether he can turn the week around as Clinton — a strong debater — continues her lead in the polls.
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Louis Neri, a seventh-grader and Trump supporter, thought that Clinton was "being a little bit arrogant" and that Trump was the more respectful debater.
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To many people disturbed by reports of intolerant radicals on campus, Peterson was a rallying figure: a fearsomely self-assured debater, unintimidated by liberal condemnation.
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It was a big part of the culture — one of the ways to connect with other homeschoolers and also prepare to be a skilled debater.
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IBM is known for its splashy demonstrations of new AI-powered research initiatives like 'Project Debater,' a robot that can debate humans, and IBM Watson.
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"Mini Mike Bloomberg doesn't get on the Democrat Debate Stage because he doesn't want to - he is a terrible debater and speaker," Trump wrote online.
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With all that said, Biden hasn't been a terribly good debater throughout this process -- and it hasn't had any major impact on his poll numbers.
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Trump's skill as a debater is breaking down any issue into three steps: the problem, his version of how we got there, and his solution.
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In the first several months of the administration, Navarro quickly developed a reputation as an aggressive debater and played a substantial role in trade policy discussions.
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Cruz is the most seasoned debater of all the Republican candidates, and Trump's absence created a vacuum that Cruz could have filled with his typical brio.
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The program, dubbed Project Debater, and Zafrir, were debating the value of telemedicine, but the point could also apply to the future of the technology itself.
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Castro became a breakout candidate in June when he distinguished himself as an authority on immigration and proved himself to be a smart and savvy debater.
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Bennet was also the best debater on stage on civil rights, the need for a fairer education system, and on how to address criminal justice reform.
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However, Buttigieg—who presents his ideas thoughtfully-- simply doesn't have many "bad" answers, and he was a better back-half debater than most of the candidates.
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Doug Dennis is the president of the educational consulting company DCSP Consulting, a former high school teacher, a writer, a debater, and an avid poker player.
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A self-serious debater with the discipline of a champion orator, Ciprian argues in favor of keeping the Constitution rather than trashing it and starting anew.
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Biden is an accomplished debater, and was praised for his performances in the 2008 primary campaign, and against GOP vice presidential nominees Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan.
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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the most practiced debater on the stage and Mr. Trump's main rival in Iowa, is almost certain to be the main target.
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He'll have a chance at the debates, although it doesn't seem likely that he can make much headway there — Clinton has proved to be a good debater.
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Rutenberg There is no question that Mr. Pence was the far smoother debater, and he was certainly helped by his years as a radio talk-show host.
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"Joe Biden is simultaneously the most-experienced presidential campaign debater in modern American life but has the lowest expectations," said Michael Steel, an adviser to former Rep.
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It even drew a taunt from President Donald Trump, who tweeted the former New York mayor is a "terrible debater" who doesn't want to be on stage.
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Others thought he sounded like nothing more than a very good high school debater, with a set of memorized talking points that he proved effective at reciting.
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In 2015, The Dublin Review ran a goodbye-to-all-that essay by Sally Rooney, a young Irish writer, about her brief career as a university debater.
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He's been a strong debater, but will his performance be enough to convince voters that a 37-year-old former mayor should be the party standard-bearer?
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Gingrich was a surprise insurgent candidate in 2012, winning two states and reminding political watchers that he's a skilled debater and a natural on the campaign trail.
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Sotomayor picked Ciprian, a high school debater, for Wednesday night's conversation, which was part of the Kennedy Center's celebration for its first expansion since opening in 1971.
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And if there are two things that play poorly in a debate (especially one against a veteran political debater), it's vague platitudes and over-the-top outrageousness.
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Sanders has improved his range as a debater, and across a variety of subjects and questions he hammered home his basic point painting his preferred picture of Clinton.
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Any decent high school debater quickly learns that to win is not to be right, it's to read the judge and figure out how to get their vote.
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Project Debater cited sources, pandered to the audience's affinity for children and veterans, and did a passable job of cracking a relevant joke or two in the process.
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The debate gives him an opening to go on offense against a seasoned debater who's aggressively attacked him as a liberal out of touch with deep-red Texas.
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Booker consistently spoke more than one to five minutes more than he&aposd be expected to, which indeed is the mark of a savvy operator and talented debater.
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And the Minnesota senator proved herself an able debater (and candidate) during this campaign, more than able to hold her own among a group of better known pols.
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She's a policy debater, which is the kind of debate where they talk as quickly as they can in order to get as many points as they can.
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IBM said Wednesday that it has incorporated features of Project Debater into its Watson product to give businesses more language-based capabilities in mining and analyzing their data.
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To generate its arguments and rebuttals, Project Debater uses newspaper and magazine articles from its own database, and also takes in the nuances of the human opponent's arguments.
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Millions of Americans tuned in Monday evening for the first presidential debate of the election cycle, which pitted the seasoned debater Clinton against the less tested and unpredictable Trump.
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For Clinton, a veteran debater, one of her biggest challenges will be both to provoke Trump and avoid being provoked by him, while delivering an earnest and candid performance.
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The Republican nominee and his allies hope his unconventional style will be a huge asset when he squares off against Hillary Clinton -- a skilled debater in her own right.
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The debate will pit Cruz, an experienced debater going back to his time at Princeton University, with O'Rourke, a three-term congressman who has ignited strong enthusiasm among Democrats.
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Clinton's track record as a debater and the inherent nature of the format makes it very unlikely that Trump will be able to turn things around in subsequent conflicts.
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On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies.
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At an IBM office in downtown San Francisco, Noa Ovadia, a college senior who won an Israeli championship in 2016, squared off with IBM's program, called the IBM Debater.
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Understanding natural language is such a complex and difficult task, systems like IBM Debater lean on a wide range of systems, each handling a different part of the problem.
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Over the last week, Mr. de Blasio suggested on Twitter that his son, a champion debater, helped him prepare — jokingly, it appeared — to compete in the first Democratic debate.
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They say they expected a slower spring and believe Ms. Warren, a strong debater with serious policy chops, could regain steam once the monthly primary debates begin in June.
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The display recalled the fighting version of Ms. Warren that is memorialized in a glass trophy cabinet at her Oklahoma City high school, where she was a champion debater.
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"Mini Mike Bloomberg doesn't get on the Democrat Debate Stage because he doesn't want to - he is a terrible debater and speaker," Trump tweeted of Bloomberg earlier this month.
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My late son was a national champion high school debater, and our foundation sponsors a summer debate camp for public school kids in the Washington area with remarkable results.
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Voters presumably subscribed to the heuristic rationale that a bad (inelegant, inconsiderate, poorly poised) debater would be a bad president – without a shred of evidence supporting such an outlandish contention.
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Apparently far more vigorous than Mr Biden—whom he is older than by a year—the democratic socialist remains an effective debater of his own left-wing economic policy ideas.
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Cheri Jacobus is pissed that after she was critical of Trump -- calling him a "bad debater" on CNN -- Donald and campaign manager Corey Lewandowski blasted her on TV and Twitter.
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"Given his limits as a candidate and temperament, I think this was probably the most mature debater we were likely to see from Donald Trump in this election," he says.
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Several of them would love to put Cruz on the defensive but they also risk getting caught with a rhetorical counter-punch from the Texan, who is a skilled debater.
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Biden is no longer the wisecracking, vibrant politician that he was in the 2008 Democratic race, where he was a sparkling debater who fell at the first hurdle in Iowa.
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Mr. Rubio's team had rigorously prepared him for a showdown with Mr. Christie, warning him of the New Jersey governor's lust for rhetorical combat and his skills as a piercing debater.
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That should be a good thing for Harris, whose prosecutorial background and her recency as a candidate -- she was elected to the Senate in 2016 -- should make her an able debater.
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Yes, Clinton had baggage, but she also had a tremendous résumé, was a good debater, and had a presence and name recognition that any of these other candidates would die for.
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But in the Senate, he became infamously unlikable, known for being smarmy and condescending; he wasted time with dead-end legislative proposals and, true to his debater roots, loved to grandstand.
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That's right: The "supposed" best debater (just look on his mantle for his national champion debating trophy), got beaten in every exchange with one of the worst debaters I've ever seen.
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An adept debater, Mr Sanders has forced Mrs Clinton to sharpen her message, especially on issues such as wages and trade that are likely to be crucial in the general election.
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Miss Debater is going into retirement for now as IBM moves on to developing the technology in more "commercially viable directions," according to Ranit Aharonov, IBM's manager for the AI system.
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Here are five takeaways from Friday night's debate: O'Rourke goes toe-to-toe with seasoned debater From start to finish, the hourlong debate between Cruz and O'Rourke was fiery and contentious.
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"He's got good intellect, but he doesn't know how to use it; and he was a good debater, but he didn't do well in the debates against me," Mr. Trump said.
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Pence was a more forceful debater and succeeded when he was presenting Trump as a change candidate, while Kaine was more forceful when he successfully pressed Pence about the GOP nominee.
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Whereas he has always been a job creator and not a debater, he nevertheless truly enjoys the debating process—and it has been very good for him, both in polls and popularity.
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Trump would be wise to focus on that line of attack, too, though his ability to focus at all has long proven one of his greatest weaknesses as a campaigner and debater.
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But Carson is a terrible debater—he often disappears for huge chunks of time and even when speaking he tends to more harm than good by speaking word salad instead of sense.
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Some experts say such hybrid systems are the future of AI. To make its case, Project Debater can choose from a long list of "principled arguments" that supposedly appeal to human nature.
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" Her colleague, Karl Rove, praised Gore as the "world's most pre-eminent debater, a man who is more proficient at hand-to-hand debate combat than anybody the world has ever seen.
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In the second debate, about telemedicine, Project Debater once again had a difficult time parsing the exact nuance its human opponent was making about how important the human touch is in diagnosis.
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Clinton is an experienced debater whose first campaign, for the Senate in New York in 2000, was drastically affected by a poor debate performance by her Republican rival, Representative Rick A. Lazio.
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Clinton, a deeply competitive debater, wants to crush Mr. Trump on live television, but not with an avalanche of policy details; she is searching for ways to bait him into making blunders.
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By my count, at least seven candidates attacked Warren at some point in the night -- and while she remains a very able debater, she was unable to parry all of those attacks effectively.
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To hold its own in a debate, Project Debater needed to have the ability to listen to its opponent, understand his or her argument and formulate a response rapidly, all without internet access.
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Bloomberg also recently released a TV ad that acknowledges his lackluster debate performances in Las Vegas and Charleston, S.C., but argues that the country is starved for a doer, not a champion debater.
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When Barbara was 18, Giulio founded a musical arm of the Accademia degli Incogniti called the Accademia degli Unisoni as a platform for his daughter's talents; she served as M.C., singer and debater.
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The former Secretary of State is a formidable debater who has been in public life for a quarter-century, and she is going up against a man who has never run for office before.
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Visiting Broadway, Ginsburg saw "What the Constitution Means to Me," a play by Heidi Schreck that traces women's rights in America through Schreck's personal experience (beginning as a student debater) and national political events.
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Cruz, a seasoned debater going back to his days at Princeton University, leaned on his experience during the competitive 85033 GOP presidential primary, when he appeared in more than a dozen high-profile debates.
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Clinton came off as a classically prepared debater who used Mr. Trump's record and words against him at 19 separate moments, while Mr. Trump seemed to be improvising on stage much of the time.
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Any Democratic debater who falls for it and wins the nomination can count on a modern-day reprise of Bush's highly-effective Willie Horton advertisements that K.O.'d the "soft-on-crime" Massachusetts governor.
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The former secretary of State is a formidable debater who has been in public life for a quarter-century, and she is going up against a man who has never run for office before.
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Anytime a debater saves their interruption for the end of a debate, I expect the next words out of their mouth to be both clear and one of their stronger points of the night.
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GOOGLE CAN NOW PREDICT WHEN YOU&aposLL DIE WITH 95 PERCENT ACCURACY: RESEARCHERS In the first debate, an argument for and against subsidized space exploration, Project Debater took on Ovadia, the 2016 Israeli national debate.
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What many people forget was that Packwood had been a strong debater in the Senate and was credited with being a key player in dismantling the Clinton administration's efforts at a universal health insurance bill.
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Martin Kilson, a leftist scholar, fierce debater and follower of W. E. B. Du Bois who became the first tenured African-American professor at Harvard, died on April 21962 in hospice care in Lincoln, Mass.
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BUSINESS DAY An article last Wednesday about artificial intelligence systems built to interact with humans misquoted the IBM Debater, a computer program that participated in a debate with an Israeli college senior on June 2800.
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Biden, a hugely mediocre debater, turned in one of his more solid performances on Wednesday night but that was due, in no small part, to the fact that everyone else on the stage ignored him.
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It should know, for example, that it doesn't make sense to argue that a ban on public breastfeeding could lead to the creation of a black market, said Ranit Aharonov, the global manager of Project Debater.
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At the right was his opponent, Hillary Clinton, a practiced one-on-one debater, who held long, studied gazes on her opponent, delivered calibrated attacks and turned to the audience to smile incredulously at his responses.
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Josh Morrison, a lawyer and former college debater who now runs an organ transplant advocacy organization, initiated the weekly course as a way to help inmates learn to lobby for their rights once they are released.
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If AI programs ever get to the point where they can present evidence of how they reach their decisions, something like Project Debater could serve as their interpreter — and nudge the field towards much-needed transparency.
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He was coherent, in control of his arguments in a way that he isn't always, and aggressive enough against Sanders to keep the Vermont senator, who is rightfully respected as an excellent debater, frequently on defense.
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She had a tremendous lack of talent," Trump told reporters as he signed an $8 billion coronavirus bill, before going on to say Warren was a good debater who "destroyed Mike Bloomberg...like it was nothing.
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Sanders is a mostly disciplined debater, hard to knock off script, but he will be under the microscope here and even the smallest blunder -- or misfired attack -- could open up a whopping can of new backlash.
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On Monday, Harish Natarajan, a grand finalist in 2016's World Debating Championships, faced off against IBM's Project Debater — a computer touted by the company as the first artificial-intelligence system built to meaningfully debate humans.
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Project Debater, which has been in the works since 2012, is designed to come up with coherent, convincing speeches of its own, while taking in the arguments of a human opponent and creating its own rebuttal.
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IBM believes the advent of "Project Debater" is groundbreaking because of its ability to tackle a deeper level of human thought and analysis, a feat that has yet to be tackled within the sphere of artificial intelligence.
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In college, Mr. Cruz was known as a great speaker more than fast-on-his-feet debater, so it will be interesting to see how the highly prepared and intellectually gifted politician handles unexpected and unrelenting challenges.
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Of the two, Mr. Kaine appeared far different from his usual self: He has been a more mellow debater in the past, a sign that the Clinton campaign trained him to be an attack dog on Tuesday.
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Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, played football, basketball and soccer in high school, but in college he competed in a nonathletic pursuit: the debate team at Princeton, where he was debater of the year in 1992.
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It lost, but it highlighted advances in language-based AI.On Tuesday, IBM announced that it has incorporated features of Debater into its Watson AI product, giving businesses more language-based capabilities in mining and analyzing their data.
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Yes, Julia is a star debater and an "A" student, but I wasn't persuaded that she could form and express these ideas so elegantly, even within the stylized artifice of a novel that's calling out stylized artifice.
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DOOMSDAY AI MACHINES COULD LEAD TO NUCLEAR WAR, THINK TANK PAPER WARNS "It's important to note that the debate topic is not known in advance, and Project Debater is not pre-trained on any specific topic," it explained.
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Trump has never been a great debater in terms of substance, but on television—and increasingly off of it—the GOP primary race is just another badly acted reality contest, a format the real estate mogul knows well.
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Sanders proved himself a worthy debater in 2016, and his blunt talk about Clinton's corporate speeches and close ties to the establishment propelled his unlikely candidacy and signaled the arrival of the progressive left on the national stage.
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In an attempt to fully demonstrate its deductive powers, Project Debater took on both sides of the question, arguing for and against the proposition that "AI will bring more harm than good", assisting human experts on each side.
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Speaking in a smooth American accent, Project Debater couldn&apost quite keep up with its human counterparts, it couldn&apost help but repeat itself a few times and failed to provide detailed examples to back up its arguments.
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The show ends with a brief (and unscripted) debate between Schreck and a young woman debater — a startling but effective ending to a show that looks at the generations of lives that have been affected by the Constitution.
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Mr. Biden, he says, is the weaker debater; when they face off again, Mr. Sanders should hit him hard on his record of calling for cuts to Social Security, as well as his support of the Iraq war.
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Bannon, Priebus, Spicer and the Mooch: A year in West Wing staff turnover Gerald Retzlaff, regular political debater at Darrell's diner in Monticello: 'He's playing three-level chess versus everybody else playing checkers' Trump wasn't my first choice.
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It will be interesting to see if, after back-to-back, one-two finishes, Mr. Trump finally decides to take on the Florida senator, and whether he can land an attack against Mr. Rubio, who is a nimble debater.
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina fell short in her bid for the White House, but she earned a reputation as a fierce debater who could attack Clinton in ways that most of her male GOP rivals could not.
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"Never let gaffes (or scandal) be the last thing said about you ... " Azi Paybarah of The New York Times, who covered Bloomberg's years as New York mayor, talked to CNN's Chris Cillizza about what kind of debater Bloomberg is.
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How Project Debater fared The IBM machine, which was defeated by a human in a one-on-one debate nine months ago, delivered each team's 4-minute opening speech using submissions sourced ahead of time from over 1,000 people.
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People remember the debater who parried with [Sarah] Palin and leveled Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanThree-way clash set to dominate Democratic debate Krystal Ball touts Sanders odds in Texas Republicans pour cold water on Trump's term limit idea MORE.
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Combine his undeniable talents as a public speaker and debater with his ability to use YouTube to reach audiences around the world and you get a right-wing celebrity who has transcended Canada and become a global reactionary star.
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GOOGLE SET TO END CONTROVERSIAL PROJECT MAVEN MILITARY AI PROGRAM, REPORT SAYS "If you think of the rules of debate, they're far more open-ended than the rules of a board game," said Ranit Aharonov, who manages the debater project.
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It is most commonly known among linguists as "paralipsis" ("to leave to the side"), a tool employed by the great Roman debater Cicero and Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift that allows a speaker to effectively say two things at once.
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Although Cruz, a former lawyer, is a more skilled debater, he more than met his match in the single-minded Sanders, who was able to parlay nearly all of Cruz's attacks by arguing for the necessity of a single-payer system.
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As Carmine Gallo pointed out in a write-up of the event for Forbes, Aristotle — who literally wrote the book on what makes for good rhetoric — insisted you need ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (feeling) to be a successful debater.
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Zachary Shaner, a smart and talented musician who worries about affording college, reminded me of my high school friend Jeanne, who was a smart and talented debater but lived in a neighborhood so poor it has been razed for urban renewal.
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But he is a principled defender of the Constitution, a brilliant strategist and debater who can defeat the Democratic nominee in the general election, and the only remaining candidate I trust to take on what he correctly calls the Washington Cartel.
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" Two other campaign aides said the first debate performance reversed his climb, even as he rebounded for a better showing in a second debate and pivoted to the message that Americans want a "commander in chief," not a "debater in chief.
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I'm a former competitive college-level policy debater and coach who used to talk fast to win, so I admire the passion of these listeners, but I'm sticking to the 1x setting as I work my way through podcast back catalogs.
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He was never a strong student, but he learned how to think creatively to solve problems that others managed more easily, a strategy of casting a wide net for preparation that he said made him a strong debater in later years.
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HOW HACKERS CAN USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGAINST US After closing arguments from both sides, a snap poll showed that a majority of audience members thought Project Debater enriched their knowledge more than its human counterpart, according to Arvind Krishna, Director, IBM Research.
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Also known as "sealioning," due to a 2014 webcomic about the archetype, this debater hides behind the pretense of civility to incessantly "Just Ask Questions" until his quarry is provoked into snapping at the annoyance, at which point the JAQer presumably ejaculates.
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Behind him two candidates are tied on around nine percent, Alfredo Barnachea, 63, a center-left former journalist and skilled debater, and Veronika Mendoza, a 35-year-old leftist congresswoman, who has been the only presidential candidate to speak out against Guzmán's treatment.
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She's an experienced debater, having participated in nearly 40 debates since her first campaign for senate in New York 16 years ago, and has been holding marathon prep sessions at a debate camp set up in a hotel near her Chappaqua home.
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In the process Mr. Cruz — the high school student who once recited the Constitution from memory and the Princeton debater who dazzled judges with his ability to entrap less shrewd rivals — showed the American public that his surging candidacy is not a fluke.
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His aversion to Ms Kelly aside, Mr Trump's better reason for sitting out this round is that he is not a good debater when it comes to details of policy and government—and he did not want to endanger his favourable poll ratings.
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In high school, Judge Garland was a star debater, the class valedictorian, an actor who sang show tunes (including the title song from "Hair"), a teenager who took an exchange student to the prom because he worried she would not have a date.
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Harish Natarajan, the European debate champion who previously beat Project Debater and also took part in Thursday's debate, said the machine's arguments lacked the same "empirical depth" as before but demonstrated that the technology was able to synthesize a broad range of views.
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Fortunately, Schreck also intends to heal some of the heartache she unearths during What the Constitution Means to Me. The show's final moments graciously expand our viewpoint into the show's titular thesis by introducing a young debater, the whip-smart Rosdely Ciprian.
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Sanders held his own against formidable debater Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE during the Democratic primary.
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" -- February 240 tweet "Is corrupt Bloomberg News going to say what a pathetic debater Mini Mike is, that he doesn't respect our great farmers, or that he has violated campaign finance laws at the highest and most sinister level with 'payoffs' all over the place?
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"Is corrupt Bloomberg News going to say what a pathetic debater Mini Mike is," Mr. Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning, using a nickname to insult Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire who has recently enjoyed a surge of popularity but who was untested on the debate stage.
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Kudlow is also unquestionably "good on television" and not necessarily a highly principled debater, so to the extent that Trump places a high priority on recruiting team members who will be effective surrogates on cable chat shows, Kudlow is likely to do a good job.
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If "Trump the Candidate" is often an outsize caricature of Donald J. Trump, the New York businessman, then "Trump the Debater" was the opposite of outsize: a subdued, scowling titan, stuffed into a black suit, straining at the seams as the debate at Hofstra University wore on.
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In "What the Constitution Means to Me," which premiered at Clubbed Thumb in 2017 before winding toward Broadway via Berkeley Rep, New York Theater Workshop and the Greenwich House Theater, Ms. Schreck, 47, recreates the prizewinning speech she gave as a teen debater in Wenatchee, Wash.
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In 2000, observers expected Vice President Al GoreAlbert (Al) Arnold Gore2020 Democrats release joint statement ahead of Trump's New Hampshire rally Deregulated energy markets made Texas a clean energy giant Gun safety is actually a consensus issue MORE, a capable debater, to wipe the floor with then-Texas Gov.
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A champion debater in high school, Schreck paid for her college tuition by debating the merits of the Constitution through a string of American Legion competitions — a time she clearly sees as a nostalgic moment when 15-year-old her began to own her ideas and her self-expression.
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Klobuchar has proven over the last year that she is a confident debater who knows when to pick the right time to deliver a blow to her opponent, but that confidence has not been reflected in polls outside of Iowa, where the senator is struggling to gain traction.
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Clinton is an experienced, effective debater, but Trump has a fix on the public's fears: during the past two years, casualties in the U.S. and Europe from attacks inspired by ISIS have gone up, and homegrown radicalization connected to that group is likely to persist for a long time.
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O'Rourke went toe-to-toe with Cruz, who was a champion debater at Princeton University, at last month's debate, but the GOP senator aggressively went after his opponent and largely kept him on defense as they sparred over hot-button issues like immigration, police shootings and NFL anthem protests.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is entering a new realm as a debater.
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The first and only vice-presidential debate of 2016 was less a game-changer than a channel-changer, a snippy and probably inconsequential 90 minutes marginally won by Mike Pence – a confident, slightly smarmy debater very much in the mold of those calculating Washington, D.C., politicians who are destroying America.
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While Mr. Biden is not an enviable debater on his best day, he seemed to largely survive the evening without a significant misstep — no small thing as he continues to lead most national polls and edges into contention in surveys of Iowa and New Hampshire, where he has long struggled.
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A FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll of likely Democratic primary voters before and after Thursday's presidential primary debate in Los Angeles found that the Minnesota senator saw the biggest boost, while one of her main targets, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, took a hit to his reputation as a star debater.
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I talked to Seth Gannon, a former champion debater and coach at Speech Labs, who explained how Conway masterfully redirects key terms and concepts, preys on interviewers' politeness, and displays an almost "postmodern" ability to recreate reality in order to trip up her interviewer and paint Trump in the best possible light.
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" Bloomberg tweeted Wednesday morning, in response to Trump's tweet, which read, "Is corrupt Bloomberg News going to say what a pathetic debater Mini Mike is, that he doesn't respect our great farmers, or that he has violated campaign finance laws at the highest and most sinister level with 'payoffs' all over the place?
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From how she'd choose Supreme Court justices to her dissection of potential gun safety regulations and their impact, array of ideas to change the tax code and grow the U.S. economy, and detailed knowledge of complex foreign policy issues — she, at many times, looked like a presidential candidate on stage next to a college debater.
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That idea animates the almost-one-woman-show "What the Constitution Means to Me," in which Heidi Schreck, a former teenage competitive debater turned writer and actress, tells the story of how several generations of women in her family dealt with male violence and control, with each one becoming increasingly awake to her own power.
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For Biden, the most experienced debater in the field, Thursday is an opportunity to steady the ship after a series of rocky moments that included a flip-flop on his abortion position and the controversy over his remarks about working with segregationist senators decades ago in the interest of civility and getting things done.
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As he filled a plate with eggs, Mr. Cruz, who was a decorated debater on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit during his college years at Princeton, said, "I would be perfectly open to" debating Mr. Trump according to the circuit's format, in which debaters propose topics of argument to demonstrate their talent at intellectual acrobatics.
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The show, which also features another actor (Mike Iveson) and a New York City high school student debater (Rosdely Ciprian and Thursday Williams, alternating), will play at the Helen Hayes Theater, Broadway's smallest house (the theater is owned by a nonprofit, Second Stage, which is renting the building to this play's commercial producers for the run).
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The president called Warren "a good debater," saying that she "destroyed" former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBloomberg campaign says it spent over 85033 million on anti-Trump ads, releases clips to public Biden rolls out over a dozen congressional endorsements after latest primary wins Biden takes command of Democratic race MORE on the debate stage, but also unlikable.
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Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg hit back on Twitter Wednesday after President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE called him a "pathetic debater" and baselessly accused him of violating campaign finance laws.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. Hillicon Valley: Dems cancel surveillance vote after pushback to amendments | Facebook to ban certain coronavirus ads | Lawmakers grill online ticketing execs | Hacker accessed facial recognition company's database Push for national popular vote movement gets boost from conservatives MORE (D-Mass.) Warren is the most consistent debater left in the race.
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" Ms. Stefanik, who is a polished debater, having prepared House Speaker Paul D. Ryan for his vice-presidential debate, called her opponent "a desperate candidate who was one of the weakest in the Democratic field," adding that she "continues to struggle both substantively on very basic issues, but also in terms of fund-raising and getting attention at the national level.
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Clinton is not a charismatic politician or a particularly effective public speaker, but she is a pretty good debater, she knows policy as well as anyone in politics, she's tangled very effectively with Republican men on various platforms (ask Rick Lazio or the Benghazi Committee), and there's no way she's going to let Trump get away with the "five slogans, insult, mic drop" approach to debating that's carried him thus far.
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"It should come as no surprise that polls have consistently shown that Mr. Kasich has a better chance of winning in November than the vulgarian New York developer with a frighteningly poor grasp of foreign policy or the Princeton debater and preposterous Ronald Reagan poseur with a demonstrated inability to work with others, Democratic or Republican, and who promises more of the same if elected," the piece said.
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A couple of years earlier, as a student at Trinity College, Dublin, Rooney had risen through the ranks of the European circuit to become the No. 1 debater on the Continent, but she wrote about her feats the way a recovering alcoholic might look back on a time of sotted carousing, at once proud of her exploits and appalled by the person she had been while having them.
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Emily Thornberry is a good parliamentary debater (and outshines Mr Corbyn when she stands in for him at prime minister's questions); Sir Keir Starmer has transformed himself from a lawyer who happens to be in the politics business to an accomplished politician who happens to know a lot about the law; Hilary Benn and Yvette Cooper have a rare ability to articulate a moderate position in an age of polarisation.
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Tim Kaine, who I think is going to be a formidable opponent as a debater as well, but he's got the right message and the right demeanor, I think, to go forward and make the case for why Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE should be the next president.
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Saturday night's debate particularly reaffirmed my allegiance to Trump's candidacy because he spoke to all generations about the concerns we face and thoughts we have: China's disrespect; Islamic terrorism; illegal aliens crossing our border; the prudence in eminent domain when absolutely necessary; proper support for cops and veterans; a hard line in foreign affairs and military diplomacy to ensure a global stability; the notion that 50 years in business and a recognized skill in negotiation is superior to a gifted debater, lifelong politician or policy wonk.
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