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The author discusses cognitive computers with the ability to reason, learn and respond intelligently to things that they have never encountered before. A truly cognitive system would be able to learn from its experience, as well as by being instructed, and perform better on day two than it did on day one. It would be able to explain what it was doing and why it was doing it. The author considers application foundations.
R. J. Brachman (Fri,) studied this question.