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Re:IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery by gowld on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:01PM (#19692070)
This is what IBM has always done. 20 years ago they pretended that their Deep Blue chess engine was in all their IT products. It's similar to how DeepMind AlphaGo is PR for Google's AI effort, but IBM takes it to comical extremes.
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Re:IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery by ne0sapi3n on Thursday April 18, 2019 @04:38PM (#19694568)
> 20 years ago they pretended that their Deep Blue chess engine was in all their IT products

[citation needed] IBM did not do this, though funding the Deep Thought team from CMU was cheaper than a Super Bowl commercial and brought more durable effect.

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Re:IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery by wpasc on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:30PM (#19692381)
I agree with you that IBM is full of shit, Google too to a degree, but Google has used AI in a variety of their products even down to data center cooling processes. I don't think IBM and Google are comparable in this respect.
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