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“Watson is a joke,” Chamath Palihapitiya, an influential tech investor who founded the VC firm Social Capital, said on CNBC in May.
A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions - MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-fo...
Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It
https://gizmodo.com/why-everyone-is-hating-on-watson-includi...
Is IBM Watson A 'Joke'?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/07/02/is-ib...
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The final article, is the most telling, in its revelations. Of course, you must speak the language to understand IBM's gartner magic quadrant-esqe based reasoning: Their argument is because a bunch of businesses they convinced to sign up have 'Watson' stamped on their engagement contracts, it's PROOF that Watson is breakthrough technology, catapulting research into a new era of big data and machine learning....lol
I'm not saying some of the things that IBM claims it does, cannot be currently done, but I no doubt at all the IBM is not doing it, and Watson is most certainly behind closed doors a complete joke.