Former Uber engineer here. I don't think Uber is anything like IBM Watson, mostly because Uber uses machine learning to solve business problems for its own pro

Former Uber engineer here. I don't think Uber is anything like IBM Watson, mostly because Uber uses machine learning to solve business problems for its own products--not for other companies' products. Most large companies that use machine learning in production will have something similar to Uber's Michelangelo. For example, Facebook has FBLearner Flow[1]. Catherine Dong recently wrote a TechCrunch article describing this broader industry trend[2]. [1]: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1072626246134461/introducing-fblearner-flow-facebook-s-ai-backbone/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/1072626246134461/introducing... [2]: https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/08/the-evolution-of-machine-learning/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/08/the-evolution-of-machine-l...