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IBM When is Watson going to regain the crown via television?

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2h agoHN ↗

The television is very powerful for propoganda, it can display stock tickers, or you can relax with an episode of Jeopardy.

2h agoHN ↗

Like Skype lost to Zoom, will Siri lose to Watson by moving too early? Will DeepSeek beat Watson due to IBM's [insert MSM talking point here]? Is it even going to appear as a contender anymore or is Alladin waiting to get the Intel gov't buy-in, too?

1h agoHN ↗

Watson had its chance, but pervasive managerial dysfunction at IBM doomed it. This is IBM's core problem that I tried to work on, but alas politics is rampant internally.

Disclaimer, 2nd gen IBMer, I devops'd for the office (AlchemyAPI, acquired) that formed the foundation of the platform (pre-ChatGPT, around the Jeopardy moment), and from what I saw the outcome is not the least bit surprising. Left mid-'18