Cognitoys: IBM's Intelligent Intelligent Intelligent Toy

Supercomputers can work not only for the benefit of science, but also serve as a means of entertainment. The other day, Elemental Path has introduced a new line of CogniToys toys that can understand their owners and communicate with them. So, IBM Watson is responsible for the toy's intelligence: the toy dinosaur is connected to the “cloud” in which speech recognition and analysis of the data received by the toy is made for its subsequent “learning”.

As a result, the toy dinosaur recognizes its owner, remembers many of the child’s preferences, including the color or favorite toy, and can joke and answer a wide range of questions from little “why-tales.”

At the same time, the toy keeps statistics of questions, as well as evaluates the achievements of small owners. For parents in the cloud service CogniToys, special statistics are maintained - the interests of the child and his success in studying a particular issue are shown in real time. In addition, parents can limit the range of questions that dinosaurs can answer (there is a kind of so-called parental control).
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Cognitoys main features:

Ability to speak and answer questions

A dinosaur can answer thousands of questions, giving answers that a child can understand. The toy takes into account the age of the child and will try to process the data so as to give an answer that the child understands exactly this age. The question “why the sky is blue” will not be answered, including words like “scattering of light radiation with a specific wavelength”;

Tells jokes, reacts to jokes of a child;

He learns, over time, the toy has its own "personality", which is produced when communicating with the child.



Network connection

The toy is connected to the Internet, to the IBM Watson cloud service.

Personalization

Each toy as an interaction with the child, develops an individual approach, which includes the child's preferences, his features, interests. The toy learns about the child's favorite color, favorite toys and other data.

Education

The child is not just played with a dinosaur, but also receives a lot of interesting information. The toy itself has a very large set of educational functions, including math, learning words, poems and so on. Plus the toys are that learning is interactive.

How it works?

To start the conversation, the child must press the large button located on the dinosaur tummy. After that, you can start chatting.



Now developers are collecting funds for Kickstarter , while collecting much more than planned. It is worth noting that a year ago, developers won the IBM Watson Mobile App Developer Challenge contest, proposing a unique idea of ​​a self-learning toy connected to a supercomputer. Now this idea has received support from IBM, and the developers will soon present the first batch of “smart” dinosaurs.