Watson & the dawn of the Cognitive Bank

Just five years ago, no one could have imagined that... Cognitive systems are fundamentally different from traditional computational computers, which are hard coded with rules and logic, following a decision tree format. Cognitive solutions actually understand, reason and learn, while interacting with humans. Cognitive systems understand like humans do. They navigate the complexities of human speech– understanding the idiosyncrasies, colloquialisms and context of the ways we express ourselves to one another. Cognitive systems reason understanding underlying ideas, forming hypothesis, and inferring and extracting concepts.