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Wonder how much of this failure was due to the IBM specific tech issues. Especially since McD is moving their POC to GCP
by nextworddev 2y ago
Wonder how much of this failure was due to the IBM specific tech issues. Especially since McD is moving their POC to GCP
- csours 2y ago> "Developed by IBM" I wonder how many people got fired.
- alephnerd 2y ago> Especially since McD is moving their POC to GCP McD has been using GCP for sometime now so it's unrelated to this fiasco [0] The IBM-McD Voice Assistant project was actually a startup that McD acquired in 2019 that was sold to IBM in 2021 [1][2], and was even a thread on HN a couple years ago [3] [0] - https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/mcd-google-cloud-announce-partnership.html https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/... [1] - https://www.verdictfoodservice.com/news/ibm-mcdonalds-mcd/ https://www.verdictfoodservice.com/news/ibm-mcdonalds-mcd/ [2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20180902173557/https://www.apprente.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180902173557/https://www.appre... [3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151768