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Keep the mute button?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by durvasa, Oct 23, 2020.

  1. SamFisher

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    My solution involves electrodes, but I don't think it would fly.
     
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    Yes our society has fallen so far. In a sane country Trump would've never made it out of the Republican primaries. In a sane world Trump would've just been a failed real estate developer and never even had the popularity from the Apprentice.

    In a sane world we wouldn't have a washed up Joe Biden as the answer to Trump.. We don't live in a sane world..
     
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    This extraordinary measure was necessary due to only one dip$hit on that stage...
     
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    Amiga 10 years ago...
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    Mute button? How about AI? It's already in use.

    https://gizmodo.com/can-ai-fix-our-broken-debates-1845461790

    Could a cool and dispassionate artificial intelligence program do better?

    Such an approach is already being attempted, in a limited way, by the event coordinators at Intelligence Squared U.S., a nonprofit group that holds debates on public policy topics ranging from nuclear power to the space race. Intelligence Squared has enlisted IBM’s Watson to use natural language processing to sift through thousands of audience questions, arguments, rants, and comments in their debates to distill the important ideas and issues people actually care about. Now that its debates have gone virtual, the group is using AI to manage what would otherwise be an unwieldy, raucous Q&A session of thousands of people in an online audience. And after just one debate earlier this month, entitled “It’s Time to Redistribute the Wealth,” it seems to be working.

    “It takes a rational approach to figuring out what is on the mind of the audience,” John Donvan, who has been the moderator of the debates since 2008, told Gizmodo. “I really enjoy the live audience, but it’s very random. I can only call on a maximum of 8 or 9 people and I have no idea if their questions will be relevant at all.”

    By contrast, IBM’s Watson analyzed 3,500 questions submitted online using a new capability called Key Point Analysis. It’s an AI-based summary developed by the IBM Research Project Debater team.


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    Douglas did come prepared.
     
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    Trump could have been just as disruptive as the first time if he wanted to, he just chose not to be. The mute button isn’t actually a muzzle, it can’t stop him from talking over the person right next to him on stage.
     

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