How We Will Harvest Cognition in 2017 - DATAVERSITY

Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. As we bid farewell to 2016, the entire data industry is focused on cognitive computing as the path forward. One key assumption in everybody's predictions is that somehow this resource called "cognition"--in other words, the substance of human thought, reasoning, and evidence-driven decision making -- will continue to flow into every pore of the digital world. I don't doubt that it will, but it seems to me that we're all just assuming that it will, without directly examining the the trends that will make it happen. For example, in this recent article, Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research lists nine "AI technology building blocks" -- Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, etc. -- that rely on cognition.