I see Watson being heavily advertised on a lot of media platforms as a technological panacea. I haven't heard of any large scale deployments with meaningful success. I studied neural nets and machine learning as an undergrad in ECE, and I believe companies like NVDA are getting us to the point that we may start to see some real practical applications. But the advertising for Watson is all over the map in terms of its applicability and it strains IBM's credibility in my mind.
Can anyone with more knowledge in the field and specifically with knowledge of the Watson product shed some light on if this is advertising hype or something that will result in actual revenues long term? I don't see how a company having difficulty maintaining its traditional business can successfully execute on something so radical, even if there is some merit to some of its applications, and I have a hard time believing they have any special sauce that would make the tool more generally applicable save for perhaps better access to certain datasets than competitors.
I currently have no position in the company fwiw.
Submitted May 19, 2017 at 07:11PM by godredditsucks http://ift.tt/2rACXyG
