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> Who the hell is signing a large contract with IBM and expecting them to deliver working tech?

Considering they have tens of billions in revenue every year, a lot of people. But what's IBM's niche? I remember they promoted watson a few years back and nothing seems to have come out of that. IBM is such an iconic name in tech but I don't remember them doing anything noteworthy for a long time. At this point IBM is just famous for being famous.

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Afaik a ton of companies use Watson.

IBM doesn’t market services… they market solutions. You contract with them and they figure out how they build something for you. And it may include Watson.

Yeah, though it's not really what people think of from the Bob Dylan ads. Watson started as a specific piece of technology (an attempt to turn the Jeopardy-winning system into a general AI engine) and later morphed into just a catch-all brand for everything IBM offers in AI and ML.

watsonx.ai where have you been !

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