IBM: "AI is not a replication of the human mind" - Mobile Marketing

Every year there's a new technology which seems to dominate MWC, with seemingly constant announcements and big queues at any stand showing it off. At previous shows that role has been filled by VR, the connected home, wearables, and this year – surprising no one – it seems to be AI. AI is currently undergoing a renaissance, with Amazon's Alexa as its mainstream-friendly face, or rather voice, but the retail giant was notably absent from this morning's'Artificial Intelligence: Chatbots and Virtual Assistants' conference session. In its place were Google, talking about its rival offering, Assistant; SK Telecom, which admitted that it has been lucky Amazon hasn't entered the Korean market, giving it space to develop a localised answer to Echo, Nugu; and the company which seems to have put its full weight behind the technology, IBM. While the company doesn't have any stake in consumer-facing offerings like Echo, as IBM fellow Rob High acknowledged on stage, it wants to be the engine that powers those experiences, through its cognitive system Watson.