Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check
I was at the CogX artificial intelligence summit in London a couple of weeks ago, and IBM were there in full force.<p>I made several rounds around all of the stalls, and sat at the bar for a couple of hours with friends, and the whole time I could see the IBM stall, with 4-5 people there, WATSON plastered everywhere and nobody talking to them.<p>So I went over. I got talking to one of their technical people there,<p>I am highly experienced in Deep Learning so I started talking about Neural Nets, and he went blank, and admitted he didn&#x27;t know much about that. I inquired about WATSON&#x27;s technology and he couldn&#x27;t answer telling me he didn&#x27;t know.<p>I asked about the main use cases, and what makes WATSONs offering better than Deep Learning, he couldn&#x27;t answer, or even compare on basic levels.<p>I asked him &quot;What are the coolest uses of WATSON you&#x27;ve seen&quot; and he immediatly went into a canned response about WATSON diagnosing cancer (a project I had seen and was familiar with) we spoke a few minutes on that, and I asked what other cool projects WATSON had been used on ... he had nothing, and I mean literally nothing.<p>very disappointing