I used to work for IBM, but a few years ago. One thing about Watson that I remember is this presentation by a very senior guy. He had just come back from the U

I used to work for IBM, but a few years ago. One thing about Watson that I remember is this presentation by a very senior guy. He had just come back from the US and was presenting what he learned there about Watson Healthcare (IIRC, that's what it was called), which I assumed was a division of the Watson team that was focused on cancer and stuff like that. I'm paraphrasing, but during the presentation he said something like: "The project was not originally called Watson Healthcare, it was called X (I can't remember exactly), but potential customers were like 'No, no, leave X, we want Watson', so we had to change the name to Watson Healthcare for the sake of our customers. Watson Healthcare actually doesn't have anything to do with Watson." I couldn't believe, at the time, how much respect I lost for IBM in about 20s. First of all, he thought we're idiots. You have to be brain dead in order to believe that he renamed X to Watson Healthcare in order to help customers. They just wanted to ride the hype train of the Watson brand and were lying to everybody about it.