Future of Cognitive Computing – Witan World

Modern day Cognitive Computing date back to the late 19th century, with the work of mathematician George Boole and his book The Laws of Thought, and the propositions of Charles Babbage on creating what he termed an "analytical engine." The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was coined by the late John McCarthy in 1955 (revised in 2007), when he defined AI as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." Artificial intelligence has been a far-flung goal of computing since the conception of the computer, but we may be getting closer than ever with new cognitive computing models. While computers have been faster at calculations and processing than humans for decades, they haven't been able to accomplish tasks that humans take for granted as simple, like understanding natural language, or recognizing unique objects in an image. The study of AI really began to excel during the 1980s when funding increased considerably over previous decades to develop new technologies into Machine Learning and AI. Then on May 11, 1997 the world's imagination was captivated when IBM's Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov, the current world chess champion.