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For as long as we can go back in time our relation with tools has been ambivalent: on the one hand it is no brainer that they simplify our life, extend our capabilities, on the other hand it is often the case that they take away something from us (it …

Can’t help but smile when I hear about “privacy”… Privacy is a figment of our imagination as we spend more and more of our life in the cyberspace. Even when we think to be living in the physical space we are connected to the cyberspace and our shadows is captured …

The evolution of Watson. It is an intelligent “machine” able to put its knowledge to use in several fields. The image shows the evolution of Watson’s application capabilities. Watson is now providing knowledge services in several areas, including healthcare. Image credit: IBM We come now to the second point: what …

As an additional point, I have been focussing on the knowledge aspects captured by a CDT. However, it may not be a big leap to imagine a CDT that is also embedding other aspect of my personality. That would, as a matter of fact, be important if I were to …

Artificial Intelligence has progressed to the point of making possible to create pieces of music, novels and newspapers articles, paintings… imitating the style of a given artist to the point that it can fool “experts” (take a look at the clip, where original and AI Bach pieces are played – …

Cognitive Digital Twins open up a whole new world. In these last 300 years we have developed amazing machines (our ancestors invented levers, the inclined plane, cogs, wheels, pullers and mills but the age of machines, as we understand them today, started with the industrial revolution as we learnt to …

Stage 3 Cognitive Digital Twins at stage 3 reflect the knowledge space of their physical entity (notice that when CDTs have a robot as physical entity they are not reflecting the robot knowledge, they are the robot knowledge) not at a specific point in time but continuously. This requires a …

“Get as much car as you need!” I loved this tag line at first sight. It is used by Link&Co, a company that is offering your own rental car. It is not a rental car company, nor a company selling cars (although it can do both). Their business proposition is …

The roadmap of digital twin evolution defines V stages (more might be added as evolution progresses): the Digital Twin is used to model the physical entity, as example during the design phase or to document a Physical Entity the Digital Twin mirrors the Physical Entity and is used, during the …

OK, time to put our Cognitive Digital Twin in action. We suppose that we have been able to create our CDT. The Digital Reality Initiative has developed a tool, KaaS, Knowledge as a Service, that supports the creation of your CDT, with knowledge items defined in the IEEE ontology, over …