Cognitive computing is highly relevant and increasingly indispensable to industrial IoT use cases, where machines can make autonomous decisions based on IoT device data, and can also protect themselves against external threats and malicious attacks. This may not be merely sci-fi imagination, as it was a decade ago.
Computer visionaries such as Alan Turing were optimistic about artificial intelligence (AI) since the 1950s. However, the recent spike in interest and research on AI owe to faster, cheaper, and more powerful parallel processing using GPUs, coupled with a steady growth in data sciences. Pure AI—where machines and robots can operate and decide with full autonomy—is still a long way away. However, practical AI, where cognitive computing augments human expertise, is already a reality. Machine learning and its specialized branch, called deep learning, are currently the main drivers behind cognitive IoT and practical...
