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What Is Cognitive Computing?

Cognitive computing refers to software and technologies that aim to augment human cognitive abilities through machine learning and natural interactions. Cognitive systems learn from interactions with humans and their environment rather than being explicitly programmed. Key applications of cognitive computing include speech recognition, sentiment analysis, and risk assessment. Cognitive computing overlaps with artificial intelligence and uses similar technologies like data mining, pattern recognition, and natural language processing to understand human reasoning and behavior. The goal of cognitive computing is to mimic human thought processes to help humans make better decisions.
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What Is Cognitive Computing?

Cognitive computing refers to software and technologies that aim to augment human cognitive abilities through machine learning and natural interactions. Cognitive systems learn from interactions with humans and their environment rather than being explicitly programmed. Key applications of cognitive computing include speech recognition, sentiment analysis, and risk assessment. Cognitive computing overlaps with artificial intelligence and uses similar technologies like data mining, pattern recognition, and natural language processing to understand human reasoning and behavior. The goal of cognitive computing is to mimic human thought processes to help humans make better decisions.
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Cognitive intelligence refers to software programmed to augment human cognitive functions.

These
technologies are becoming better through machine learning and a continued human feedback
throughout all interactions. It also refer as cognitive computing.

A Cognitive system learn at scale, reasons with purpose and interacts with humans naturally.
Rather than being explicitly programmed, these systems learn and reason from their
interactions with human beings and their experiences with their environment. Cognitive
computing overlaps with Artificial Intelligence and involves similar technologies to power
cognitive applications.

 What is Cognitive Computing?


Cognitive Computing refers to individual technologies that perform specific tasks to
facilitate human intelligence. Basically, these are smart decision support systems that we
have been working with since the beginning of the internet boom. With recent breakthroughs
in technology, these support systems simply use better data, better algorithms in order to get a
better analysis of a huge amount of information.

Also, you can refer to Cognitive Computing as:

 Understanding and simulating reasoning


 Understanding and simulating human behavior

Using cognitive computing systems helps in making better human decisions at work. Some of
the applications of cognitive computing include speech recognition, sentiment analysis, face
detection, risk assessment, and fraud detection.

How Cognitive Computing Works?


Cognitive computing systems synthesize data from various information sources while
weighing context and conflicting evidence to suggest suitable answers. To achieve this,
cognitive systems include self-learning technologies using data mining, pattern recognition,
and natural language processing (NLP) to understand the way the human brain works.

Using computer systems to solve problems that are supposed to be done by humans require
huge structured and unstructured data. With time, cognitive systems learn to refine the way
they identify patterns and the way they process data to become capable of anticipating new
problems and model possible solutions.

To achieve these capabilities, cognitive computing systems must have some key attributes.

Key Attributes

 Adaptive: Cognitive systems must be flexible enough to understand the changes in


the information. Also, the systems must be able to digest dynamic data in real-time
and make adjustments as the data and environment change.
 Interactive: Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a critical component in cognitive
systems. Users must be able to interact with cognitive machines and define their needs
as those needs change. The technologies must also be able to interact with other
processors, devices and cloud platforms.
 Iterative and stateful: Also, these systems must be able to identify problems by
asking questions or pulling in additional data if the problem is incomplete. The
systems do this by maintaining information about similar situations that have
previously occurred.
 Contextual: Cognitive systems must understand, identify and mine contextual data,
such as syntax, time, location, domain, requirements, a specific user’s profile, tasks or
goals. They may draw on multiple sources of information, including structured and
unstructured data and visual, auditory or sensor data.

Cognitive computing is a subset of Artificial Intelligence. There are various similarities and
differences between the two. So let’s move on with our Cognitive AI article and understand
the difference between the two.
 

Cognitive Computing vs AI
The technologies behind Cognitive Computing are similar to the technologies behind AI.
These include machine learning, deep learning, NLP, neural networks, etc. But they have
various differences as well.

Cognitive Computing Artificial Intelligence


Cognitive Computing focuses on mimicking human AI augments human thinking to solve complex problems.
behavior and reasoning to solve complex problems. It focuses on providing accurate results.
It simulates human thought processes to find solutions AI finds patterns to learn or reveal hidden information and
to complex problems. find solutions.
They simply supplement information for humans to AI is responsible for making decisions on their own
make decisions. minimizing the role of humans.
It is mostly used in sectors like customer service, It is mostly used in finance, security, healthcare, retail,
health care, industries, etc. manufacturing, etc.

So these were some of the differences between the two. Now let’s move ahead and
understand the concept of Cognitive AI with example.

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