Thinking big with cognitive computing

Posted on June 1, 2021 at 12:10 PM

McKinsey & Company predict that the six major technology sectors will be worth US$10 trillion by 2025. Notably, the industries framing the big six – mobile Internet, knowledge task automation, the Internet of Things, cloud technology, advanced robotics, and autonomous vehicles – all rely heavily on cognitive computing. The [...]Click here to view original web… read

When using behavioral architecture, ensure ethical application

Posted on September 10, 2020 at 17:44 PM

Behavioral psychology influences consumer habits, and plays a role in medicine. In health care, behavioral design and choice architecture are powerful tools used to influence the practice of health professionals and the behaviors of patients. This includes default settings on ventilators, drug formularies and where instructions are placed on [...] Click here to view original… read

Robots with Common Sense and Cognitive Intelligence: Are We There Yet?

Posted on September 10, 2020 at 10:54 AM

The debate about man vs robots is an evergreen and common thing now. While robots are viewed as an enabler of a dystopian future brought by digital disruption , the main question that has baffled minds is how smart are they. When it comes to human intelligence, there isn’t [...] Click here to view original… read

Latest research finds virtual training capable of enhancing cognitive functions

Posted on September 5, 2020 at 14:35 PM

A team of researchers at Tohoku University’s Smart-Aging Research Center (IDAC) has come up with a ground-breaking training protocol, which is said to be using the immersive virtual reality (IVR) technology. According to the researchers, the latest training procedure is… Click here to view original web page at newsdegree.com read

Cognitive Systems Spending Market | By Major Key Players IBM, IPSOFT, Accenture plc, Cognitive Scale, HP, Wipro, Microsoft, Attivio, and Intel

Posted on August 31, 2020 at 14:39 PM

Cognitive Systems Sepnding Cognitive systems are a type of technology that is used to facilitate the use, delivery, and collaboration of information in analysis and decision making. These systems use information, knowledge graphs, artificial intelligence, and other components to help workers provide recommendations, answer questions, and predict future events. [...] Click here to view original… read

Why smart people believe coronavirus myths

Posted on April 11, 2020 at 12:42 PM

It is a sad truth that any health crisis will spawn its own pandemic of misinformation . In the 80s, 90s, and 2000s we saw the spread of dangerous lies about Aids – from the belief that the HIV virus was created by a government laboratory to the idea [...] Click here to view original… read

Two studies uncover brain mechanisms underlying decision making process

Posted on April 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM

New research conducted in the Cognitive Neuroscience group of SISSA shows that a perceptual decision - recognizing an object and taking the appropriate action - is triggered as soon as the brain's processing networks accumulate the exact right quantity of sensory information. Our sensory receptors continuously collect information from [...] Click here to view original… read

NIH Funding Opportunity for Neuroimaging Data Secondary Analysis

Posted on April 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced a funding opportunity for projects that will conduct secondary analysis of existing data from the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative . The BRAIN Initiative aims to develop technologies that help researchers understand neural networks for the treatment and [...] Click here to view original… read

UA researcher: Studying how brain processes metaphors could aid efficient learning

Posted on April 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM

Graduate student Anna Katikhina, left, and research assistant Hannah Hart inject electrogel into the electrodes on a cap for study volunteer Travis Koziol to ensure proper brainwave readings in his electroencephalogram at the University of Arizona Department of Psychology building, April 18, 2019, in Tucson, Ariz. The study is [...] Click here to view original… read

Artificial Intelligence vs. Cognitive Computing in education: How they Differ?

Posted on April 22, 2019 at 11:20 AM

The first thing to understand is that cognitive computing is part of artificial intelligence (AI), or a subset of artificial intelligence. There are many definitions of AI, with many tech companies formulating their own definitions depending on what their aim is for AI. The Oxford Dictionary defines artificial intelligence [...] Click here to view original… read