Re:IBM's Watson 'is a Joke,' Says Social Capital CEO Palihap...
by DKnoll on Monday May 08, 2017 @08:20PM
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> "The companies that are advancing machine learning and AI don't brand it with some nominally specious name that's named after a Sherlock Holmes character."
The fact that he doesn't check a statement before speaking it on TV really speaks to how seriously you should take the rest of the article.
>IBM isn't at the forefront of artificial intelligence, Social Capital CEO and founder Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Monday, and he certainly isn't a fan of IBM's Watson.
>"At the end of the day, when you are making deep methodical investments in technology companies, it is fundamentally first and foremost about the jockey," he said.
The fact that he doesn't check a statement before speaking it on TV really speaks to how seriously you should take the rest of the article.
>IBM isn't at the forefront of artificial intelligence, Social Capital CEO and founder Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Monday, and he certainly isn't a fan of IBM's Watson.
>"At the end of the day, when you are making deep methodical investments in technology companies, it is fundamentally first and foremost about the jockey," he said.
Err, so does the tech matter or not?