The post discusses new research indicating that large language models like GPT-4 can surpass humans in persuasiveness during face-to-face debates. Researchers from EPFL and Fondazione Bruno Kessler conducted a study comparing human debates with tho...

(00:03) Good afternoon, and welcome. I’m Kim Vannear, the chairman of the MIT faculty. We gather here today to honor two people: James R. Killian Jr. and Professor Noam Chomsky. Professor Chomsky, would you please come to the stage? (02:30) In pre...