IBM’s Initiative in “The Imitation Game”
Recently, Alan Turing’s notebook documenting his “Automatic Computing Engine” sold at auction for $1.025m. This was the machine he described as imitating the human brain, and the namesake of the movie “The Imitation Game.” The latest bid in this field is a collaboration between IBM and Numenta on artificial reasoning at a workplace called the “Cortical Learning Center.” The combination of computing power and sophisticated reasoning software has already been used to detect time-based patterns in data, rogue behavior detection and geospatial tracking, which opens new possibilities if applied to the notion of the autonomous hospital. But it is in robotics that “the imitation game” may have its greatest payoff, in everything from warfare to healthcare, manufacturing to forensics. MORE
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