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I worked at IBM many years ago. At some point, some hotshot executive came to our site and was giving a presentation about Watson Healthcare (IIRC). It's a bit
by rocgf 4y ago
I worked at IBM many years ago. At some point, some hotshot executive came to our site and was giving a presentation about Watson Healthcare (IIRC).
It's a bit hard to reproduce exactly, but he said soemthing along the lines of: "So we wanted to start an AI-based healtcare product at IBM and while we were talking to customers, they kept asking us about Watson. And we were like 'no, IBM Healthcare has nothing to do with Watson', but they kept insisting that 'no, no, we want the Watson stuff', so we renamed it to Watson Healthcare, though it has nothing to do with Watson".
You see, the way he was saying it, it seemed like he didn't even realize that what he was saying was wrong in any way. He made it seem like customers left IBM no choice but to use the highly-popular name of Watson in the name of a product that has nothing to do with Watson.