{"id":2553,"date":"2021-10-02T14:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T14:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2021-10-02T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T14:57:43","slug":"why-argument-technology-stephen-fry-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/why-argument-technology-stephen-fry-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Argument Technology? Stephen Fry explains."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve been working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDg_EVBPyUmKrR54mp9Wjyw\">Pindex<\/a> on a new video that explains the context and motivation for a lot of work in argument technology.  Stephen Fry narrates, opening with a discussion of some of the big societal challenges including conspiracy theories and fake news. The video then explores the role argument technology could play in tackling these challenges, covering foundational research in areas such as <a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/coli\/article\/45\/4\/765\/93362\/Argument-Mining-A-Survey\">argument mining<\/a>, plus some signal successes such as IBM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/research.ibm.com\/interactive\/project-debater\/\">Project Debater<\/a>, and the vision of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/cacm\">Argument Web<\/a> including practical applications such as <a href=\"https:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2020\/11\/248201-reason-checking-fake-news\/fulltext\">Reason Checking<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video is out now on youtube:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The incredible thing about John Oliver viewers, w Stephen Fry.\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7cN3rZ5h3LE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been working with Pindex on a new video that explains the context and motivation for a lot of work in argument technology. Stephen Fry narrates, opening with a discussion of some of the big societal challenges including conspiracy theories and fake news. The video then explores the role argument technology could play in tackling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}