Buzzwords Debunked

Cognitive Computing

Cognitive computing is an older marketing term for software that imitates parts of human reasoning. In practice it describes the same technology now sold as AI or machine learning. The word adds nothing but an impression of depth, and it turns up most often in expensive consulting proposals.

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