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Daryl Pereira IBM / Nustory@CagedEther
Towards a cognitive business
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Shift to digital
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What is cognitive computing?
“Cognitive computing refers to systems that learn at scale, reason with purpose and interact with humans naturally.” – IBM
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Robots play poker – Responds to visual inputs from
cards
– Converts speech to text to understand
– System gets cleverer and improves risk model the more it plays
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2016/07/playing-poker-robots-solution-overview/
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Engineers reduce risk of drilling– System can analyze all kinds of
data
– It would take a human 5 years to read all of this information
– System responds using natural language
https://medium.com/cognitivebusiness/tap-into-your-tribal-knowledge-48a3786df081
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Your friendly weather guide
https://www.facebook.com/hiponcho/
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Try for yourself
https://conversation-demo.mybluemix.net/
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Why use Facebook Messenger?
1bn people use Facebook Messenger every month
Natural language interface makes locating correct unstructured documents easier
Backend service announced earlier this year makes development easy
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What can you design?
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What to consider – Value proposition
What problem does it solve, why will people want it?
– SolutionWhat is the proposed solution, from technology through to process and design
– Business case How can the solution sustain itself in the long-term?
Daryl Pereira IBM / Nustory@CagedEther