'We're moving from mobile devices to cognitive conversations - it's the future' says IBM Watson CTO

Charlee Gothard
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Talking to AIs to perform everyday tasks soon to be the norm, claims AI chief

"Cognitive conversations" with artificial intelligence are "the future" of customer care, IBM's CTO of Watson Europe reckons. Speaking at Computing's Big Data and Analytics Summit 2016 last week...

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