Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check

Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by blazespin on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:13PM (#14767152)

It might be more honest if they said "IBM Data AI Division."

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by tomjakubowski on Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:39PM (#14767274)

"IBM DAD"? :)

More seriously, do you think Microsoft would have been more honest if they'd called Windows "Microsoft Graphical Multitasking Operating System"? Or if BMW had gone with "BMW Better Performance And A Cooler Badge But It'll Cost You" instead of "BMW M"?

Brand names exist for a reason.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by RRWagner on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:18AM (#14767428)

Why not just call it "Watson Systems"?

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by chongli on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:04AM (#14767869)

Because IBM markets to CEOs, not IT staff. They want their customers excitedly talking about Jeopardy-winning, superhuman AI at the dinner table. Technical people won't do that.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by komali2 on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:07AM (#14767616)

Stop, I'm getting fucking flashbacks to our early product design meetings.

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by moccachino on Friday July 14, 2017 @06:25AM (#14768753)

You have more interesting meetings than I have..

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by dotancohen on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:56AM (#14767580)

How about: With All The Shit On Nails

Hmm, I'm having a hard time figuring out the N. Ideas?

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Re:Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check by semi-extrinsic on Friday July 14, 2017 @04:09AM (#14768330)

"With All The Shit One Needs"?

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