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Is Watson a single fixed codebase or just a branding of multiple loosely related IBM research projects?

• andrenotgiant 11y ago
  It's a marketing campaign.
  • mercurialshark 11y ago
    I just had a conversation with an IBM Watson engineer. It was the worst professional conversation of my adult/professional life after I asked "is everything Watson has accomplished so far a PR campaign?" It's not they said, "we are moving into oil and gas." Ah, right.
    • agumonkey 11y ago
      They keep rebranding it. It feels like Java. Based on that, Watson will be a success, but not where it was intended to.
      • shiven 11y ago
        Yep, soon as Rich Hickey gets around to writing a Lisp for it. Wonder what he'll call it though. Clotson? Watjure? Wisp?
  • nkozyra 11y ago
    Ultimately, yes, I think it's unlikely there's any real magic there. If we use "Watson" as shorthand for "supervised learning logic agent" I think it makes more sense. It just means it's not entirely tied to IBM.