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Watson is presented as code, but it's actually people. It's just marketing metaphor. I'm sure they have someone on board sufficient to claim that they're doing
by abandonliberty 4y ago
Watson is presented as code, but it's actually people. It's just marketing metaphor. I'm sure they have someone on board sufficient to claim that they're doing cognitive computing, and can use some of those tools if your use case necessitates.
However, I have heard they pay poorly like any agency that optimizes costs, so that'll be reflected in the skill and output.
- wellanyway 4y agoThere are APIs at IBM that are actually a frontend to a Jira with few hundreds of contractors from India that are bullied into picking incoming tickets so fast that it actually kinda feels like using a slow API.
- TobiWestside 4y agoDo you have a source on that?
- abandonliberty 4y agoIsn't this a lean startup principle, mechanical turk? There's nothing inherently wrong with doing this at points in your dev cycle. I don't actually see it as a negative on IBM's part. A client could simply need them to do this for the longer term. Might be easier than dealing with technical debt or updating old systems.
- wellanyway 4y agoI am a source on that, I know people that were looking at that Jira 24x7x365.