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Wasn't Watson basically a parlor trick though?
by snovymgodym 9mo ago
Wasn't Watson basically a parlor trick though?
- stg22 9mo agoIt wasn't a parlor trick and could have evolved into a useful product doing a small, basic subset of what LLMs do today. The problem was IBM's leadership didn't have the slightest understanding of the technology, thought they'd invented ChatGPT and pushed it into applications far beyond its potential, e.g. diagnosing cancer.
- weare138 9mo agoYeah it kind of was. Watson was essentially an NLP search engine.
- bigbuppo 9mo agoThey should have made an MLP search engine. Those people will buy anything.
- duskwuff 9mo agoDeep Blue was also a bit of a parlor trick. It relied on a ton of special-purpose hardware - literally a rack of custom-made chess ICs. It's neat that it worked, but it didn't have any wider applicability.