I worked at TJ Watson research center at the end of the 20th century but not in a research role or on ML. It’s weird because IBM spends a lot on research (6 bi

I worked at TJ Watson research center at the end of the 20th century but not in a research role or on ML. It’s weird because IBM spends a lot on research (6 billion when I was there) but they are always trying to get marketable things out of said research. They still had chip fabs when I was there so they had people working on chemistry physics and math for chip things. They had chess playing machines (deep blue) and a backgammon one using ai. They hired a lot of phds who were for the most part very self motivated. Very smart people. I’m not sure if they are still getting the best and brightest but for a lot the IBM letters are a draw.