Project Joshua Blue

Project Joshua Blue is a project of IBM, which focuses on advancing the artificial intelligence field by designing and programming computers to emulate human mental functions. Main goal of Joshua Blue is “to achieve cognitive flexibility that approaches human functioning”. In short, IBM is aiming to design Joshua Blue to ‘think like a human’, mainly in terms of emotional thought; similar IBM projects focusing on logical thought and strategic reasoning include Deep Blue, a logic-based chess playing computer, and Watson, a question-driven artificial intelligence software program.