Even at noisy and chaotic times, such as during a military exercise, augmented cognition has worked surprisingly well, says Dr Schmorrow.

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Augmented cognition could also find its way into work, too.

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Augmented cognition promises to be a different story, insists Eric Horvitz, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, and president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

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