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All of this is just this month's iteration of large corporations using trendy buzzwords to stay relevant.

Anyone remember "IBM Blockchain Platform: Hyperledger Fabric Support Edition"? Or "Watson Assistant"? Or "IBM Quantum Systems"?

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> Or "Watson Assistant"?

And then they started calling everything "Watson"? https://www.ibm.com/watson/products-services

Ì believe Watson was their umbrella for anything ML, AI, and NLP.

> Or „IBM Quantum Systems“?

Hey hey now. Quantum Systems is actually a free to use (up to certain qubits) cloud platform which you can use qiskit, their open source python lib, to interact with. Its super cool to use it to get some insights into quantum computing and actually evaluate stuff.

So Id take that out of the equation if I were you

> super cool

Every quantum computer is.

Watson Assistant has been around for a while now, at least since 2016 when I first used it for a project, and it's been used extensively by that company and its customers since. So maybe not quite fair to include it with the others.

On a personal note I was involved with a tiny NLP company that won a contract against IBM Watson around a decade ago just showing a proof of concept that worked using known NLP techniques.

The contract was not large but showed how easy was beating IBM in that technical side, even when you compete with a sales machine.

Speaking of Watson, how well does ChatGPT perform at Jeopardy?

I gave it a whirl some time ago. The answer is: extremely well. Blog post incoming

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