[Lendal]

No need for employees when Watson can do it all. Unbeknownst to these people, they renamed it Watson Health due to the fact Watson is going to run the entire division itself. Amazing! The future of AI is finally here! Watson has spent the last few years learning all these peoples' jobs.

[GavinMcG]

This sort of sarcastic, content-free comment doesn't contribute much, and isn't a great fit for this community.

[seibelj]

I disagree, I think it is satire showing the over-hyped nature of Watson and AI in general during this latest VC investment boom. HN still has room for humor

[ybrah]

I disagree too. I think that humor should be allowed on hacker news. I mean as long as the jokes aren't at the expense of the ideology of the majority of hacker news's users. In that case, that humor should be downvoted and removed.

[GavinMcG]

I agree that there's room for humor. But for that, it should be well-written satire that makes that point.

"[T]hey renamed it Watson Health due to the fact Watson is going to run the entire division itself" is a complete non-sequitur, just filling up space.

[Lendal]

That's not what a non sequitur is.

Massive layoffs at a company that hypes its AI and is actually named after that same technology is called "irony", not non sequitur. I'm disappointed for having to explain this.