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This came as no surprise to me, and hence, I was spared the pangs of disillusionment, but there are countless people who have actually dealt with IBM's marketin
by Bye_Felicia 8y ago
This came as no surprise to me, and hence, I was spared the pangs of disillusionment, but there are countless people who have actually dealt with IBM's marketing gimmick, Watson, and have come away with a serious hangover:
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“Watson is a joke,” Chamath Palihapitiya, an influential tech investor who founded the VC firm Social Capital, said on CNBC in May.
A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions - MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-for-ibms-ai-ambitions/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-fo...
Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It
https://gizmodo.com/why-everyone-is-hating-on-watson-including-the-people-w-1797510888 https://gizmodo.com/why-everyone-is-hating-on-watson-includi...
Is IBM Watson A 'Joke'?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/07/02/is-ibm-watson-a-joke/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/07/02/is-ib...
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The final article, is the most telling, in its revelations. Of course, you must speak the language to understand IBM's gartner magic quadrant-esqe based reasoning: Their argument is because a bunch of businesses they convinced to sign up have 'Watson' stamped on their engagement contracts, it's PROOF that Watson is breakthrough technology, catapulting research into a new era of big data and machine learning....lol
I'm not saying some of the things that IBM claims it does, cannot be currently done, but I no doubt at all the IBM is not doing it, and Watson is most certainly behind closed doors a complete joke.
- MattRix 8y agoI didn't even mention Watson, since I know nothing about it. Even if Watson is a complete sham, it doesn't mean ALL AI projects are shams! For example, you can't say that DeepMind is vaporware. AlphaGo is real, and it works. Self-driving cars are real, and they work, etc.