Welcome to Cognition, Perception and the Next Generation of Smart Computing!

Chinese startup, Horizon Robotics has taken up the ambitious initiative to develop the next level of AI infrastructure for real time decision-making. These decisions will be based on cognitive and perceptive capabilities of the machine.

How will they achieve it?

Horizon Robotics is using neural networks software techniques, or deep learning that imitate human brain activity, helps the AI record and learn the brain wave patterns. These techniques help the computer learn human behavior by surfing through vast volumes of neural data and understanding how a human will behave in a given situation.

How Cognitive and Perceptive AI Will Change the Way You Live

You are already using basic AI-enabled programs in your daily lives. One of the most common examples are face recognition feature in Facebook and mobile phones. Ever wondered how Facebook recognizes you and your friends’ faces when you are tagging a photo? This is just the tip of this next-level technology. Majorly, this technology will be relying on speech and visual capabilities.

Evolution and Focus

At this stage, the major focus of this technology is on cars and home appliances. Self-driven cars are already being tested on roads. But there’s still some years before they enter the commercial market. What is the hold-up then? The computers of today use serial computing methods, which enable a step-by-step workflow. But to get to the next level of self-driven cars and self-performing robots, you will have to design new processors with cognitive and perceptive intelligence. A self-driven car will have to calculate and anticipate ten different obstacles on the road at any given moment, like pedestrians, roadblocks, signals and bad patches. The neural network platform is being used to compile loads of real traffic data and is being fed to the machines, which are assessing this data and learning from it. Would anyone had believed in such cars a decade ago? Science fiction is rapidly becoming your reality today.

Takeaways:-

• Horizon Robotics is developing the next level AI based on cognitive and perceptive capabilities.
• Neural network softwares (deep learning techniques) are being used to gather and feed volumes of data to computers so that they can learn to identify patterns in human behavior.
• Right now, the company is focusing on using this next level AI in home appliances and self-driven cars.