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I've asked many IBM employees to explain to me what Watson actually does (like for real, not the marketing BS that's on TV) that would make me want to buy it. N
by swingbridge 11y ago
I've asked many IBM employees to explain to me what Watson actually does (like for real, not the marketing BS that's on TV) that would make me want to buy it. Nobody could explain it. Literally some where just like "yeah, I think they're still trying to figure out how they can make a product out of it."
The Jeopardy thing was cool but since then it's turned into this mystery black box that will supposedly solve all your problems, but nobody's can seem to point to any real successes that would matter to a business. Honestly it seems mostly like marketing fluff built on some midly proprietary distributed computing technology.
- mazelife 11y agoI don't know that this is "something that would matter to a business" per se, but here's something else they're working on with it: https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community
- pesenti 11y agoYou can check and use many things that Watson does by using trying and using our cloud services: http://ibm.com/watsondevelopercloud http://ibm.com/watsondevelopercloud. I know there is a lot of PR around Watson. But there are also real efforts and some state-of-the-art technology in speech, dialog, text analytics, vision, machine translation, etc. I am happy to answer any question you may have.
- alanwatts 11y agoIt seems like it may be a "solution without a problem" so to speak.