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What Ever Happened to IBM's Watson? (2021)

• nonrandomstring 3y ago
  > But the grand visions of the past are gone. Shame. IBM, for a brief moment there, held onto something precious. Watson was a shot at "Intelligence Amplification". IA is, neatly, in many ways the opposite of AI. IBM's ethos was starting with ambitious goals and working backward to tools and technologies that can solve them. By contrast the current wave of transformer AI seems an opportunity gold-rush based once again on solutions looking for problems. Being a reader of Edwin Black I'm cautious to call IBM "principled", but... hey I can't escape it, I kinda just did.