>> I don't think that Watson was such a terrible product in 2012 check out where the rest of the field was back then. I think you're talking about Watson, the

>> I don't think that Watson was such a terrible product in 2012 check out where the rest of the field was back then. I think you're talking about Watson, the product, as in the attempt by IBM to sell the technology developed for the system that won at Jeopardy. The original Watson was the most advanced NLP system of its time and for many years later. I am not sure but I wouldn't be surprised if it could still run rings around large language models, who are all the rage today, just because it was not actually a bullshit generator and it was designed (and designed well) to retrieve correct answers to questions (and then convert them to questions, because Jeopardy). But then IBM tried to sell it and made a complete mess of it. I am not one to make business analyses but it seems to me that the people who tried to monetize and market Watson's technology were not the same people who developed it.