Artificial Intelligence Poised to Improve Lives of People with Disabilities
From: Huffington Post - 07/12/2017
By: Sheri Trewin

In her July 12 post "Artificial Intelligence Poised to Improve Lives of
People with Disabilities", IBM T.J. Watson Research Center's Shari Trewin
highlights the ability of cognitive systems to engage with us, and the world,
in more human-like ways. The ability to learn and generalize from examples is
another important feature. Trewin says that through advances in machine
learning, cognitive systems are rapidly improving their ability to see, to
hear, and to interact with humans using natural language and gesture. In the
process, they also become more able to support people with disabilities and
the growing aging population.

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