IBM has a kind of spinoff of Waton that won jeopardy a while back called Project Debater. This time the human won 
The potential is amazing down the road where this could tear politicians apart or mansplain to your better half why they are wrong.
Debate starts at 11:20
Rebuttal starts at 24:34
Closing statement starts at 37:41
From this video.
-The topic was “We should subsidize preschool”
- Project Debater was never trained on this topic that was picked. It has a large database and forms the argument from that. The Human was given 15 mins to research the topic.
- There are 3 rounds.
- 4 min introductory argument on the topic.
- 4 min rebuttal.
- 2 min closing statement.
- Project Debater has about 10 billion sentences to pull from and string together to make an argument.