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People mock them for that Jeopardy thing, but that would have been the perfect first move to offering something like Watson as a service. They could have built
by _ea1k 4y ago
People mock them for that Jeopardy thing, but that would have been the perfect first move to offering something like Watson as a service.
They could have built it over time to offer real assistance to knowledge workers with a real revenue stream.
But that would have required vision and foresight.
- local_crmdgeon 4y agoThat's exactly what it was for, but it was basically a fraud: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-ibm-watson.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-...
- SoftTalker 4y agoThe problem is that "Watson" wasn't a real thing, it was just a name they gave to any solution they were trying to sell.
- juve1996 4y agoThey did and it failed miserably.