ALL ABOUT COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY
                     ALL ABOUT COGNITIVE 
TECHNOLOGY
WHAT IS COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY
• Cognitive technology is a field of computer science that 
mimics functions of the human brain through various 
means, including natural language processing, data mining 
and pattern recognition. 
Source: Daily Postal
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• Cognitive technology is a subset of artificial intelligence, 
which itself could be considered a subset of biomimetics.
• Although artificial intelligence has been the subject of 
research for a very long time, cognitive technology 
evolved mostly out of the internet
Source: dqindia.com
APPLICATION
• Cognitive technology has implemented in 17 industry 
sectors including:
– aerospace and defence
– agriculture
– Automotive
– Banking
– consumer products
– health care
– life sciences
– media
– oil and gas
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APPLICATION
• Applications of cognitive technologies fall into three main 
categories: 
– Product
– Process
– insight
Source: digiscape.com
Products and services embedding cognitive technologies
• Organizations can embed cognitive technologies to increase 
the value of their products or services.
• This can be done by making them more effective, 
convenient, safer, faster and more valuable.
Source: dreamstime.com
Automating internal processes with cognitive technologies
• By automation we mean using computer systems to do 
work that people used to do. 
• The result is that the work gets done faster, cheaper, 
better, or some combination of the three.
Source: freepik.com
Cognitive technologies learning from information
• Natural language processing techniques, make it possible 
to analyze large volumes of unstructured textual 
information that has not yielded to other techniques. 
Source: bbva.com
Analysis to guide investment in cognitive technologies
• The viability of an application may depend on factors 
such as the specific characteristics of the information an 
organization is working with. 
• Value varies with the evolving level of effort required to 
implement these technologies.
Source: goodworklabs.com
Humans in the loop
• Facebook claims it can recognize faces with 97% accuracy
—but it still cannot generally recognize multiple objects 
in a scene or reliably understand what actions it is 
witnessing. 
Source: Daily Postal
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