Here's an answer from someone who "worked with IBM until earlier last year as Watson architect" ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456211 https://news.

Here's an answer from someone who "worked with IBM until earlier last year as Watson architect" ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456211 It's reasonably in depth and appears sincere. tl;dr: it's a good search engine and a disparate set of machine learning tools. Sales is promising Hollywood AI, but the reality is that it takes a sizable project team to build anything worthwhile. Scanning past commentary, it seems that startups are eating their lunch (more nimble, dedicated to customer space). I'll add that half the machine learning battle is getting access to data, so hyping the brand makes sense strategically.