Over the past couple of years, Canada has been cementing its status as an AI hub with the likes of Google flocking to Montreal, the Royal Bank of Canada establishing its machine learning division as part of an initial partnership with the University of Toronto and with Thomson Reuters founding a research lab in the Waterloo region and a technology centre
for cognitive computing in Toronto.
IBM offers legal AI services for eDiscovery and legal research with its Watson supercomputer: Ross, as the service is called, uses Natural Language Processing, and can also be used
for cognitive computing, e.g., to review contracts (www.rossintelligence.com).
And Robert Schukai, head of applied innovation, technology and operations for Thomson Reuters, says the firm is building a center
for cognitive computing.
Not exact matches
Big Blue can thank Watson — its Jeopardy! - winning,
cognitive computing superstar —
for that.
I recently spoke with Guruduth Banavar, vice-president of
cognitive computing for IBM Research, and he put it succinctly:
Big Blue has found yet another business application
for its precocious
cognitive computing system.
It's also been buying up startups and big companies alike to jump start demand
for its Watson
cognitive computing business.
Asked
for comment, an IBM spokesman said the company is «aggressively transforming its business to lead in a new era of
cognitive and cloud
computing.
In addition to partnering with Celgene (celg) to better track negative drug side effects, IBM (ibm) is applying its
cognitive computing AI technology to recommend cancer treatment in rural areas in the U.S., India, and China, where there is a dearth of oncologists, said Deborah DiSanzo, general manager
for IBM Watson Health.
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«But
cognitive computing gives us a complementary paradigm
for a radically different kind of machine.»
Modha is confident that his chips can be used to build a
cognitive computing system on the scale of a human brain
for only 100 times more power, making it 10 million times more energy efficient than the computers of today.
Mark Bishop is professor of
cognitive computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and chairs the Society
for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
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for an APOE - by - sex interaction on conversion in controls (n = 5,496) and MCI patients (n = 2,588).
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Learners use
cognitive logic and addition / multiplication to
compute the totals
for customers orders.
He has been responsible
for driving the firm's digital strategy including focusing on
cognitive computing and AI, knowledge management, input to business information systems strategy and supporting client delivery, new delivery models, client consultancy and strategies in relation to market changes.
In view of ROSS, it is only natural that Thomson Reuters, the owner of Westlaw, is collaborating with IBM to integrate
cognitive computing (ie, Watson) into its «customer solutions» and has established a data and innovation lab (Thomson Reuters Labs) in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada's Silicon Valley) to «bring together our unrivalled information assets and industry expertise with experts who can help make those assets increasingly actionable
for our customers.»
About RAVN Systems RAVN Systems has extremely broad and deep experience with Unstructured Data processing and offers revolutionary, search - based and
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In our latest Talking Tech video, Jan Van Hoecke, the CTO and co-founder of RAVN Systems, talks to Charles Christian about the company's evolution from the enterprise search sector and emergence as a provider of AI (artificial intelligence) and «
cognitive computing» solutions
for lawyers.
Brian Kuhn, global co-leader
for the IBM Watson legal practice, talks about why lawyers should be interested in
cognitive computing (or augmented intelligence).
For more than thirty years, Ashok has conducted research into artificial intelligence,
cognitive science and human - centered
computing, with a focus on computational design, modeling and creativity.
Albeit not quite Robot Lawyer in cute metallic form, ROSS is the smart result of a deal between the company, Apple (using Siri's slick voice capabilities) and IBM (Watson's
cognitive computing prowess) and will be a huge boon
for lawyers, law firms and clients; potentially.
To be candid, if the real and potential benefits of providing legal advice include speed of service and reduced cost respectively, to achieve a positive outcome, which has ultimately come about via the use of sophisticated IT / AI at some point during the legal service / problem continuum, and as a legal buyer my main concern is the right result, quality, value
for money and / or price (which remains the issue in many instances), and I know lawyers and law firms can now do the work quicker, smarter and more accurately using AI and
cognitive computing technology, can I therefore expect my legal fees to be reduced?
It's no surprise then that applications are popping up in many areas - regulators and supervisors using DLT or
cognitive computing, governments providing electronic payments
for public services or social security.
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