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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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