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Watson rollouts have been huge and expensive failures.

Because IBM Watson is essentially a billion dollar bet on 90% shell scripts sed'ing and awk'ing datasets.

It was a sales and marketing ploy to sell global services contracts

Can you provide some actual evidence to back your inflammatory, dismissive claims?

There is zero mention of sed or awk at [0]. And looking at one of the references [1], it's pretty clearly more involved than sh+sed+awk. Is Apache UIMA [2] 90% sh+sed+awk? At a glance, it doesn't appear to be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)#Software

[1] https://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php

[2] https://uima.apache.org/

From my understanding it was a great marketing tool that never found it's footing due to complexity and cost. All of the real world applications for it just didn't justify the price IBM would be charging with the lock in.