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Cognitive Machines Help Decision-Making

Posted by simoniker on from the computer-made-me-do-it dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "At Sandia National Laboratories, new "smart" machines can accurately infer your intents and help you to take better decisions or avoid mistakes. They could change in a near future how we interact with computers, according to this news release. The team who developed the concept associated cognitive psychologists and robotics researchers. The Sandia team thinks that "it's entirely possible that these cognitive machines could be incorporated into most computer systems produced within 10 years." This summary contains more details, including a photo of a "Sandia software developer operating a simulation trainer while a cognitive model of the software runs simultaneously.""

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  1. ruh row by cetan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, thank you Mr. Data. I'm glad you warned me about that worm before it infected the power plants computers...

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  2. The religious fanatics are at it again by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice defies the separation of the church and the State.

    "Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore yesterday defied a court order...on the grounds that God's law supercedes state and even federal law."

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  3. Re:Hi! by BrynM · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You seem to be a Microsoft Exec reviewing a grant proposal. Would you like to:
    • Find a third party with the same proposal and aquire it?
    • Search your patent portfolio for related works that you can leverage ageanst the applicant?
    • Approve the grant on the condition that the applicant no longer develop this threatening idea and simply works in the mailroom?
    • Sic your lapdog SCO on the applicant for patent infringement or any other silly thing SCO can come up with?
    • Reply to the applicant that more evangelizing of MS products on Slashdot is required and that he/she should come back when their Karma hits absolute zero?
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  4. Re:Slashdotted? by jack+torrence · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "...that could think like a person." How about first just trying to make it 'think'. If you can ever work this out, then the next two stages: a. think like a machine, and (so then on to) b. think like a person, might happen. I suppose you really mean think like a 'human' - it was not too long ago that blacks, native people, and women were not considered to be 'persons' (i.e., posssessors of most rights and the ownership of the Self).