IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery

Re:IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery by erikpukinskis on Thursday April 18, 2019 @07:57PM (#19695856)

You’re describing a person who has a huge amount of expertise in sales.

But a person like that can very lucratively sell actual products that already exist, so why would they want to sell this mysterious X?

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Re:IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery by throwawayjaksdk on Thursday April 18, 2019 @08:15PM (#19695955)

Because the person is actually a business that:

a) employs enough scientists who know what they're doing and lawyers who know what they're doing to file relevant and defensible patents; and

b) has enough entrenched relationships that they can pay for a sales force what knows what they're doing; but

c) doesn't employ enough engineers who know what they're doing to develop actual competitive products around those patentable ideas.

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Re:IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery by m463 on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:42AM (#19697150)

but products that actually exist are X-1 not X

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