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Anything that IBM puts out remember they are a consulting company, so they want to generate a huge brand name. That allows them to charge the consulting prices
by dangero 9y ago
Anything that IBM puts out remember they are a consulting company, so they want to generate a huge brand name. That allows them to charge the consulting prices they need to charge to make this business work for them. IBM Watson is a collection of sort-of-working AI related APIs, but it gets A LOT of press. If they can create an AI brain, then people will believe they can do anything for them in the tech arena and that's the goal.
- heisenbit 9y agoThis is true. However they are also accounting towards AI services. The way it works is that at the beginning a few existing projects are re-classified under the new heading. But over time the revenue is expected to grow. It did not. And other revenue is also not growing - that was why they started this new initiative in the first place. Unless one switches in time to a new growth story in a credible manner one has to make it work at some point in time. Eventually even Wall St. gets a clue and then real problems start.