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Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by jrs95 on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:41PM (#16960622)
It's exceedingly clear to me that they're talking about hardware that can support future capabilities -- additional features via software upgrades is something they talk about a lot. And they're very explicit about what their Autopilot system does and doesn't do on their site. There's basically no situation in which someone is buying a $70,000+ car without knowing how the Autopilot works.

It's really not that deceptive. People would have to be a lot dumber than they actually are to be confused about it.

Re:IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016) by AsyncAwait on Monday April 30, 2018 @03:08PM (#16961309)
> It's really not that deceptive.

I'd say that if they're claiming to be able to deliver full self-driving autonomy to existing cars via purely a SOFTWARE upgrade, then that's pretty deceptive, since I am pretty sure not even Tesla knows exactly what hardware might be required for such capability. They'll know when they build it, but not before.