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Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI... by jsight on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:02PM (#35790713)
People mock them for that Jeopardy thing, but that would have been the perfect first move to offering something like Watson as a service.

They could have built it over time to offer real assistance to knowledge workers with a real revenue stream.

But that would have required vision and foresight.

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Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI... by SoftTalker on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:35PM (#35791254)
The problem is that "Watson" wasn't a real thing, it was just a name they gave to any solution they were trying to sell.
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Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI... by local_crmdgeon on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:12PM (#35790865)
That's exactly what it was for, but it was basically a fraud:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-...

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Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI... by juve1996 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:43PM (#35791386)
They did and it failed miserably.
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