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Watson was more of a Marketing name and concept than a product. The actual Watson tech, while not bad, was not a general purpose AI - all it did was assemble a
by dublin 5y ago
Watson was more of a Marketing name and concept than a product. The actual Watson tech, while not bad, was not a general purpose AI - all it did was assemble a bunch of inferences from a large corpus of text.
At the time, it was better at that than most systems, but it still produced a fair number of howlers when reviewed by humans. (I briefly looked at Watson as an alternative in evaluating technology for a new learning system some years ago.)
- tinus_hn 5y agoI also saw weather predictions ’powered by Watson’; it has be more than that
- weird-eye-issue 5y agoIt was the marketing name for IBM AI projects from my understanding It's also possible that was total BS and they paid to put the "powered by Watson" there
- belthesar 5y agoIBM ended up buying The Weather Company (Weather Channel, Accuweather) around the time when I was there. Lots of things were getting the "Powered by Watson" thing slapped on them around that time.
- weird-eye-issue 5y agoYep there we go. There is a huge difference between "marketing" and "reality" more often than not
- smt88 5y agoLots of things said "powered by Watson," but Watson was not a single system, nor did IBM actually add value in most cases (see: Watson Health, which was a catastrophe).
- atatatat 5y agoNow you see why it worked. lol