Watson was mostly a marketing jargon built by IBM. They marketed and sold the product before the technology was ready.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, (and probably soon Amazon) have advanced the AI industry further than IBM at this point. You can predict this by the number of papers released by each company. Stats from 2017: https://medium.com/@chuvpilo/whos-ahead-in-ai-research-insig...
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Watson was mostly a marketing jargon built by IBM. They marketed and sold the product before the technology was ready.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, (and probably soon Amazon) have advanced the AI industry further than IBM at this point. You can predict this by the number of papers released by each company. Stats from 2017: https://medium.com/@chuvpilo/whos-ahead-in-ai-research-insig...