Cognitive interfaces for use within a cognitive environment

A cognitive information processing system comprising:

• a cognitive inference and learning system coupled to receive data from a plurality of data sources and to provide insights to a destination, the cognitive inference and learning system executing on a hardware processor of an information processing system, the cognitive inference and learning system and the information processing system providing a cognitive computing function, the cognitive inference and learning system comprising a cognitive platform, the cognitive platform comprising a sourcing agent and a destination agent;
• the cognitive inference and learning system processing the data from the plurality of data sources to provide cognitively processed insights, the cognitive inference and learning system further comprising performing a learning operation to iteratively improve the cognitively processed insights over time;
• the cognitive inference and learning system comprising a first interface, the first interface providing the data from the plurality of data sources to the cognitive interface and learning system, the first interface comprising a sourcing agent application program interface (API), the sourcing agent API being implemented to enable the sourcing agent to source a variety of multi-site, multi-structured source data streams, the multi-site, multi-structured source data streams being dynamically ingested via the sourcing agent API, the sourcing agent comprising a sourcing agent API connectors agent, the sourcing agent API connectors agent being implemented to manage interactions with APIs that are external to the cognitive platform;
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• the cognitive inference and learning system comprising a second interface, the second interface providing the cognitively processed insights to the destination, the second interface comprising a destination agent application program interface (API), the destination agent application program interface being implemented to enable a destination agent to publish the cognitively processed insights to a consumer of cognitive insight data, the destination agent comprising a destination agent API connectors agent, the destination agent API connectors agent being implemented to manage interactions with APIs that are external to the cognitive platform, the destination comprising a cognitive application, the cognitive application enabling a user to interact with the cognitively processed insights via the destination agent API.