Machine learning and the evolving intelligence landscape

There is quite a lot of confusion about the differences between machine learning, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence. Is there an easy distinction? Josefin Rosén (JR): I think the easiest way of thinking about it is that machine learning is basically a subfield of artificial intelligence. Then you can think of cognitive computing as artificial intelligence plus elements of natural language processing. So cognitive computing understands input like text, voice and video, and it can reason and create outputs that can be used and consumed by humans, not just computers.