we caught up with arvind krishna, ibm's senior vice president and director of ibm research.sked what grade he would give if it was a high school student. >> i would give it a high school grade right there. i have been clear about this maybe in the middle of high , school, and then it will graduate to high school and in college right after that. emily: project debater cracked a joke or two, but there were times it was clear it was repeating news articles. you know, how do you make it -- how do you improve the performance even more? >> there are two sides. one is how do you make the speech much more persuasive, much more well constructive. i don't think we will equal the best humans on that. we could put together a cohesive, lucid speech. on the other side, the knowledge and the evidence that it gives, i think, by and large people are , waiting to say it is more knowledgeable and giving more evidence toward the claims its bouts. we have to decrease how repetitive it gets sometimes. emily: you have been working on this for six years. this must have been quite nerve-racking. >>

we caught up with arvind krishna, ibm's senior vice president and director of research.ed what great he would give if it was a high school student. >> i would give it a high school grade. may be in the middle of high school and it is going to graduate high school and college right after that. emily: project debater cracked a joke or two, but there were times it was clear it was repeating news articles. how do you make -- how do you improve the performance even more? >> there are two sides. one is how do you make the purse -- how do you make the speech more persuasive. i don't think we will equal the best humans on that. we could put together a cohesive, lucid speech. on the other side, the knowledge and evidence. to say it isiting more knowledgeable and giving more evidence toward the claims its bouts. we have to decrease how repetitive it gets. emily: you have been working on this for six years. this must have been quite nerve-racking. >> completely. live in front of an audience on a topic we have never seen. emily: it is like your child performing in a high school deba