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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 …

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 …

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 …

Just as I am writing these posts I stumbled on the Wired article published yesterday  “Humans can’t be the sole keepers of Scientific Knowledge“. Worth reading. According to that article 190,000 scientific papers will be published this year, 2021, more than 1 every 3 minutes. If you plan to dedicate …

In the last post I discussed the application of Digital Twins to people, modelling their physiological characteristics, with obvious application in Healthcare and in the previous one in this series the use of Digital Twins to model knowledge of machines, Cognitive Digital Twins -CDTs. It is time now to consider …

As artificial intelligence is progressing we can shift from pure syntactical interactions to semantic based interaction. This is what happens with the newest robots that are more and more aware of: their surrounding the problem space they are addressing the goal they pursue the” help” they can get from other …

I remember when I was young (that was a long, long time ago), computers were perceived as electronic brains with a mixed feeling of expectation and fear. As a boy having to spend hours on books I dreamt of the possibility to download the knowledge from the books into my …

In the IEEE Digital Reality Initiative -DRI- we have spearheaded the concept of Cognitive Digital Twins -CDTs. Note that Cognitive Digital Twins have been around for a few years now, probably their first “mentioning” can be attributed to IBM (2018). What singles out the contribution of DRI is the use …

Hua Zhibing has enrolled at the Tsinghua University in Beijing. There are several “things” that place Hua in a category of  her own. To start with she has the cognitive capability of a 6 years old, and it seems quite strange that she would be admitted to the university. However, …