A new artificial intelligence (AI) platform named "Amelia" -- after aviator Amelia Earhart -- boasts of cognitive capacities that could transform the way the world works.

Amelia was developed as an answer to a conundrum posed decades ago by the late British mathematician, philosopher, and computer scientist Alan Turing, who asked if it were possible for computers to think.

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His question seems to have been answered since Amelia is capable of learning the same written instructions as humans. At the same time, she's able to assimilate and process information at speeds only computers can achieve.

Rather than just saving information, Amelia understands the context, applies logic and infers the implications of the information.

Moreover, she's capable of learning from her colleagues through observations, thereby building on her knowledge.

Amelia makes it possible to automate knowledge work across a broad range of functions. She quickly applies her knowledge to solve queries in a wide range of business processes.

While most "smart computers" need humans to adapt their behaviors, Amelia can act like a human by herself. She can now speak 20 languages.

According to the technology website techodrom, "... her core knowledge of a process needs only to be learned once for her to be able to communicate with customers in their language. Independently, rather than through time-intensive programming."

Amelia takes pieces of information and builds her own "process map," understanding the data and applying it in her own way.

New York-based firm IPsoft has been developing Amelia for 15 years in the hope of making a machine that can comprehend the underlying meaning of communications.

Amelia has already been tested in a number of Fortune 1000 companies, successfully answering queries from the help desk and providing expert advice.

In the end, Amelia could transform the global workplace by relieving humans of tedious and laborious tasks, leaving people to more creative roles.

"Amelia will allow people to indulge in more creative forms of expression, as opposed to doing routine business process tasks," said Chetan Dube, IPsoft CEO.

"This platform will free us from the mundane, disrupting industries in the way that machines have previously transformed manufacturing and agriculture. We're going to have to rethink work by redefining existing roles and identifying new ones."

He explained that when investigating smart solutions, we must first analyze what it means to be intelligent. Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge, said Dube.

"If a system claims to be intelligent, it must be able to read and understand documents, and answer questions on the basis of that. It must be able to understand processes that it observes. It must be able to solve problems based on the knowledge it has acquired. And when it cannot solve a problem, it must be capable of learning the solution through noticing how a human did it. Amelia is that mensa kid, who personifies a major breakthrough in cognitive technologies."

In order to see if Amelia is indeed a success, she should undergo the Turing Test. The test will make Amelia interact with a person, and humans need to decide if they are interacting with a fellow human or a machine.

If the person decides the former while interacting with Amelia, the AI software will be a success and herald the dawn of new supercomputers.

IPsoft automates IT and business processes for enterprises across a wide range of industries. With a portfolio of autonomic and cognitive solutions, IPsoft provides services that allow its clients to secure competitive advantage.

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