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Initial Watson was sort of a mess. But a lot of the Watson-related tech is integrated into a lot of products these days.
by ghaff 11mo ago
Initial Watson was sort of a mess. But a lot of the Watson-related tech is integrated into a lot of products these days.
- mikalauskas 11mo agoWhat related tech and what products, interesting to read about them
- ghaff 11mo agoBaked into a lot a Red Hat products including Ansible and RHEL. Not that directly involved any longer. Probably read up on watsonx.ai.
- hn_throwaway_99 11mo agoSuch as? I'm curious because I know a bunch of people who did a lot of Watson-related work and it was all a dead end, but that was 2020-ish timeframe.
- ghaff 11mo agoIBM did a lot of pretty fragmented and often PR-adjacent work. And getting into some industry-specific (e.g. healthcare) things that didn't really work out. But my understanding is that it's better standardized and embedded in products these days.
- hn_throwaway_99 11mo agoNot to be rude, but that didn't answer my question. Taking a look at IBM's Watson page, https://www.ibm.com/watson https://www.ibm.com/watson, it appears to me that they basically started over with "watsonx" in 2023 (after ChatGPT was released) and what's there now is basically just a hat tip to their previous branding.
- ghaff 11mo agoI think that's essentially accurate even if some work from IBM Research in particular did carry over. As I recall my timelines, yes, IBM rebooted and reorganized Watson to a significant degree while continuing to use a derivation of the original branding (and took advantage of Red Hat platforms/products).