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Oh the irony of this coming from IBM!
by mathattack 9y ago
Oh the irony of this coming from IBM!
- coherentpony 9y agoWhy is it ironic?
- david-cako 9y agoProbably because they've spent the last 7 years building buzz around machine learning vaporware.
- startupdiscuss 9y agoOkay, but how is that ironic?
- david-cako 9y agoBecause they, themselves, could use a machine learning for dummies guide, yet they are offering themselves as an authoritative unit on the matter.
- gaius 9y agoThey should have entitled it Machine Learning From Dummies Example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15182478
- murukesh_s 9y agoWhat do you find as vaporware? I don't think they are offering vaporware, but their marketing is doing lot of hype hoping to enter into the startup ecosystem, but are failing miserably due to their traditional focus on selling to large corporates. I have attended IBM sponsored conferences and I was floored by the the reach they have for their cloud offering, especially on large firms and Govts. Agree that Bluemix, as an offering is nowhere as polished as AWS is, but they do have a good business going around it.
- david-cako 9y agoI was speaking of Watson. It seems like every time it comes up someone who was tasked with investigating it for their company or someone who actually worked at IBM comes along and talks about how big of a joke it actually is. I've heard good things about Bluemix.
- wooshy 9y agoI was one of those people tasked with investigating Watson and I had the exact experience you described. It was a huge joke. Tried out Bluemix as well, it wasn't a huge joke but it wasn't great either.
- murukesh_s 9y agoWhat was lacking in Watson? Lack of features or lack of accuracy? I had integrated Watson in on of the libraries in a platform I was building and found it reasonable. Haven't compared it extensively with other offerings from Microsoft or AWS, so interested in knowing if you have..