6 ms·
I'm reaaaally getting tired of IBM's PR department plastering Watson press releases all over the place in the guise of "news". Especially when "Watson" is more
by fiatmoney 12y ago
I'm reaaaally getting tired of IBM's PR department plastering Watson press releases all over the place in the guise of "news". Especially when "Watson" is more of a brand name, and there's next to no evidence that whatever "it" is is actually better or more cost-effective than off-the-shelf techniques (let alone the frontier of research) at any particular machine learning application.
"Ford sees broader role for Taurus in aiding transportation networks of the future!" Of course they do.
- ar7hur 12y ago+1. IBM must regain control over their PR people, speak less and do more, or they will lose any credibility with developers.
- kevin_thibedeau 12y agoMaybe Watson's inference engine could be reworked into an automated PR generator and put them out of a job.
- zrail 12y agoMaybe it already has...
- Houshalter 12y agoWatson may be overhyped, but it isn't a replacement for off the shelf machine learning algorithms. Watson is more like a search engine that takes advantage of a lot of natural language processing. It is for answering questions in natural language and searching through huge amounts of literature automatically.
- fiatmoney 12y agoSo, like Solr? I don't mean to be glib; and I do understand that "answering natural language questions" is distinct from "search engine". But I have the feeling that it's a capability distribution that is much more impressive in the context of a full-court IBM sales pitch to an executive who saw it on Jeopardy once and wants to get in on this machine learning thing that everyone's talking about, than as a tool used by experts to do a task or set of tasks better. Their shameless press release marketing isn't exactly dispelling that notion.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]