IBM duly set up business units centered on productizing the technology, as David Kenny, who was then general manager of the Watson business noted to Fortune last year. That’s good for IBM’s services business, but these companies were not interested in taking on a such a task. That meant buying Watson-and then preparing data for Watson-was more a big integration project than a product purchase. IBM has Watson, while Salesforce (CRM) has Einstein, for example.Įarly on, some large companies that were interested in Watson as portrayed by IBM, privately noted later that while they saw great promise, Watson in reality, was a set of technologies that needed to be stitched together at their site. To be fair, while IBM (IBM) did set the table for this broad brush branding, other tech companies have taken up the cause with a vengeance, sprinkling the term “AI” like fairy dust on every bit of their software. “The companies that are advancing machine learning and AI don’t brand it with some nominally specious name that’s named after a Sherlock Holmes character,” he added.
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