Yes. I had the mention of it already typed out but decided that its not adding much to my point. IBM Watson was some mysterious thing that got shipped with Windows 95 or 98 and i (as a kid) didn't understood what it could do.
I meant the AI stunt IBM ran with a computer winning Jeopardy and then IBM followed by selling AI services that were by all accounts unrelated to the thing that won Jeopardy.
In the corporate world we had CIOs and Operations leaders naively but legitimately making decisions based on their belief Watson was going to replace service workers. Now it’s OpenAI, Copilot or Generative AI broadly.
Yet what the corporate world has to show for all the hype is the same administrative burden and many failed experiments, POCs and strategic projects. Oh and a new generation of believers and snake oil sales teams.
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Yes. I had the mention of it already typed out but decided that its not adding much to my point. IBM Watson was some mysterious thing that got shipped with Windows 95 or 98 and i (as a kid) didn't understood what it could do.
I meant the AI stunt IBM ran with a computer winning Jeopardy and then IBM followed by selling AI services that were by all accounts unrelated to the thing that won Jeopardy.
In the corporate world we had CIOs and Operations leaders naively but legitimately making decisions based on their belief Watson was going to replace service workers. Now it’s OpenAI, Copilot or Generative AI broadly.
Yet what the corporate world has to show for all the hype is the same administrative burden and many failed experiments, POCs and strategic projects. Oh and a new generation of believers and snake oil sales teams.