Human intervention plays a major role in tasks requiring human intelligence in today's organizational landscape. But the way things are done in the future will be more cooperative, with people and automated systems working together to complete these jobs. This change calls for the creation of sophisticated AI systems that can mimic human thought processes and perform jobs that have historically fallen under the purview of human intellect.

Leading this transformative vision is Aeteos SAS. The main focus at Aeteos is cognitive computing, which heavily draws from computer sciences, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics.

Aeteos SAS CEO Mark Pohlmann exclusively discussed with The Business Fortune how his organization is utilizing cutting-edge Cognitive Computing software solutions to assist people.

The Beginning: How everything began

"The majority of AI software, both in 2016 and now, is mostly reliant on statistics and mathematics, which we believe is an incorrect methodology. Intelligence is a ‘human thing’ and can best be defined by one’s capacity to represent knowledge, understand it, and be able to reason, make decisions, and solve issues. Making machines smarter will need that these human capabilities can be translated to and executed by a machine. To do this, we have developed two key software components, the VirtualBrainsTM and the SmartNeuronsTM, based on computer sciences, philosophy, languages, neurosciences, and psychology. Information can be handled by SmartNeuronsTM in an analog or fuzzy manner, similar to how chemical neurons do it in the brain, so that this processing is as close as possible to how humans process information. VirtualBrains™ is a data structure analogous to the human long-term memory, where information or knowledge is stored in a categorized way, providing machines with specific frames of references and enabling cognition. These components are at the heart of our award-winning Cognitive Computing software engine, Percipion,” said Mark Pohlmann.

Percipion: The Brainchild of Aeteos SAS

Percipion is the result of Aeteos SAS's seven years of intensive research in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive and clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, ergonomics, and computer sciences.

The majority of tasks requiring human intelligence are currently carried out by humans in many firms, and they are difficult to update with conventional technologies. Many of those procedures require employees to operate in a specific corporate environment, comprehend and evaluate enterprise data that is presented in plain language, locate pertinent information and fresh perspectives, reason, make decisions, and then take action. We envision these processes being able to be carried out by both humans and machines. A new breed of cognitive computing software called Percipion may mimic brain function and carry out activities that often call for human intelligence. It enables companies to represent various semantic contexts, comprehend natural language, reason, and act. It can also be applied throughout the organization to modernize up to 38 use cases.

Upending the Norm for Cognitive Computing

"The majority of the time, we act against the wind and cause disruptions with what we do. While many think machine learning is the way forward, we maintain that learning is a process that robots cannot properly carry out on their own in order to acquire information. Acquiring knowledge is a common mental task and is not a sign of intelligence. Our goal is to increase machine intelligence. Since the ability to forget is a fundamental mental activity shared by humans and machines alike, machines should be taught to do the same. It is not reasonable to assume that statistics and mathematics alone can produce artificial intelligence, even if these fields currently rule the AI industry. Since we believe that this is the only way to bring warmth and compassion into an otherwise impersonal machine, we have opted for a different course, primarily based in psychology and neuroscience," says Mark Pohlmann.

Customer Testimonies

To improve personnel management and lower talent churn, a French international insurance business integrated Percipion. The natural language structure of the quarterly employee surveys, which were used to identify areas for development, presented a challenge for human resources. It took time to comprehend the input and determine an objective way to measure employee happiness. Thanks to Percipion, employee questionnaires are now evaluated quickly. It pinpoints satisfaction standards and, in a matter of minutes, produces an extensive report for HR that highlights both its strong points and its areas for improvement. This makes it possible to identify areas for improvement in real time and offers insightful information about the workforce.

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Path Forward

"What's important to us is giving our clients access to technology that respects people's fundamental rights while also being helpful, moral, environmentally friendly, extremely secure, accurate, and transparent. We want to provide tech for good, to put it briefly.

"We're still working on a lot of new features and innovations today, so our customers can use Percipion to modernize even more difficult business use cases," says Mark Pohlmann in closing.

Aeteos SAS | Leadership

Mark Pohlmann is a co-founder and the CEO of Aeteos SAS.

"Percipion can be used across the enterprise to modernize up to 38 use cases and empowers businesses to represent multiple semantic contexts, understand natural language, reason, and take action."