IBM says computers can have 5 human sensory abilities within 5 years

In the next five years, the development of computer technology may enable the computer to have the same feeling as we do Sina Science and technology news Beijing time March 6, according to foreign media reports, today's personal computers and smartphones powerful, can help you check the weather somewhere thousands of kilometers away, you can also book hotels and lunches. But if you want it to tell you what the texture of a particular dress is, or whether a particular dish is tasty, there is nothing you can do about it. However, according to IBM, the situation will change within five years. By then, computers will learn more about the world around them and how to understand different things. IBM has also raised the 5 kinds of sensory abilities that computers are capable of realizing, namely, sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. In combination, these 5 sensations derive from the same large concept of cognitive computational ability. Computers and other machines will feel the world more and more like people. A cognitive computer, for example, looks at a picture not just as a set of data points, pigments, and lines that describe the color, but rather as a whole, and can understand what the painting means. Cognitive advantage "This is a fundamental change in computational thinking," Bernie Meyerson, IBM's vice president for innovation, said in an interview, "You have to think about how to get the data from a new perspective, not just take a picture and then store it." Bernie Melsen You have to look at the image as an entity at a higher level, not just a bunch of data sites. "" (cognitive computing) will promote some very interesting functional shifts, "he added," which is a fairly profound technological advance. "The key difference between a cognitive computer and a traditional computer is that the latter can receive" training. The cognitive system does not simply repeat the wrong or useless answer, but once you know the conclusion is wrong, you can change the method and try again. "A machine that can be recognized, you set it up to run, it starts to ' watch '," Melson says, "which is unusual because it can use statistics to calculate the final result." If the answer is incorrect, after you have told it, it will be able to weigh back the possibility of causing the wrong answer and eventually get the right answer. "Cognition is not equal to the ability of a smart machine to feel, which makes it possible to start thinking about Android robots and computers that are autonomous and capable of thinking and acting independently." There is a huge gap between cognitive computing and real AI, Melson said. "It's really just a supporting technique," he explains, "It can't run autonomously." It is designed to respond to human instructions in a complementary way. Through a humanized input, it can help us to free from the programming tasks, into the next training task. In short, it requires greater bandwidth, but no more intelligence, which is a huge difference. "(Nintendogs)