Computer-aided Humans

A Cognitive Future

George D Thomas, Partner

Global Director, Strategy & Market Development
IBM Government Industry
gdthomas@us.ibm.com

What Im going to talk to you about?

How we interact
with our world has
fundamentally
changed

There are three

tectonic
technology-led
shifts that are
driving this
change

How might our

children interact
with their
world? With
each other?

What changed in the world?

Data is
transforming
industries and
professions

The world is
being reinvented
in code

Computing is
entering the
cognitive era

Data is transforming
industries and professions

Economic Vitality in a Data Driven World

Data is the new natural resource driving the 4th Industrial Revolution

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The digital and physical

infrastructures of the planet are
converging

A plan for the physical

that is instrumented and interconnected

Computational power is being put

into things we wouldnt recognize as
computers. Almost anything can
become digitally aware and
networked.
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Data is the New Oil

In its raw form, oil has little value.

Once processed & refined, it helps
power the world.

The world is being

reinvented in code

The new digital builders are reimagining the world

80,000 Lines of
Code in a
pacemaker

1.2M Lines of
Code in a smart
phone

5M Lines of
Code in a typical
smart appliance

100M Lines of
Code in a new
car

Exposed API
Organization
Data & Services

3rd Party Apps

Mobile Apps

Social Networks

Widgets

Organization Website

And the API economy is the enabler for this disruption

Computing is entering a
new cognitive era

The iterations of computing

The iterations of computing

What makes a cognitive system different?

Three capabilities differentiate cognitive systems from

traditional programmed computing systems

Learning
Reasoning
Understanding
Cognitive systems understand
like humans do.

They reason. They understand

underlying ideas and concepts. They
form hypothesis. They infer and
extract concepts.

They never stop learning getting

more valuable with time.
Advancing with each new piece of
information, interaction, and
outcome. They develop
expertise.

. allowing them to interact with humans.

Cognitive systems democratize

innovation by scaling knowledge.

Sens o rs

D a ta

Ana lytics

Inf o rma tio n

I n g e s t i o n , I n t e g r a t i on , G o v e r n a n ce

Co gnitive

Cognitive systems forge a new partnership

between man and machine.

Huma ns excel a t:
Common Sense
Morals
Imagination
Compassion
Abstraction
Dilemmas
Dreaming
Generalization

Co gnitive Sys tems

excel a t:
Locating Knowledge
Pattern Identification
Natural Language
Machine Learning
Eliminate Bias
Endless Capacity

Computer Aided Humans - the future is here