This year’s “IBM 5 in 5″ represents the 7th annual index of innovations that have the potential to create a strong impact on our lives in the next five years as per the iconic technology company. It also clearly states hat cognitive computing will help both devices and computers to think and act like human beings thanks to ever improving artificial intelligence. This overall improvement will be made possible by giving computers five sensors relating to: touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight.
According to IBM, with the sensor for taste, a computer will not only be able to find the exact chemical make up of the food, but it would also be able to tell why humans desire and appreciate specific tastes.
Moreover, “Not only will it make healthy foods more palatable – it will also surprise us with unusual pairings of foods actually designed to maximize our experience of taste and flavour,” says the computer giant.
“In the case of people with special dietary needs such as individuals with diabetes, it would develop flavours and recipes to keep their blood sugar regulated, but satisfy their sweet tooth.”
The multinational corporation also predicted that with tiny smell sensors mobile phones or computers will be able to detect whether someone is having cold or any other type of illness in the next five years simply by analysing odours in a person’s breath.
In addition, IBM’s report also says that such tools will become increasingly helpful for physicians as well, as they will enable them to monitor and diagnose the start of sicknesses and disorders in the kidney and liver as well as diabetes, epilepsy and asthma.
As far as the sense of hearing is concerned, this U.S. based multinational technology company says that future computers will have a better capacity to analyse and detect various sounds.
“Within five years, a distributed system of clever sensors will detect elements of sound such as sound pressure, vibrations and sound waves at different frequencies,” IBM said.
“It will interpret these inputs to predict when trees will fall in a forest or when a landslide is imminent.”
Another innovation will be that of touch sensors that will allow mobile devices like tablets and smartphones to communicate in a non-verbal way. However, this haptic means of communication will enable people to understand how a device ‘feels’. Haptic feedback is not a novel thing, as it is already in use, such as typing on a glass keyboard.
Source: TheAustralian, ReadWrite
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