[dublin]

Watson was more of a Marketing name and concept than a product. The actual Watson tech, while not bad, was not a general purpose AI - all it did was assemble a bunch of inferences from a large corpus of text.

At the time, it was better at that than most systems, but it still produced a fair number of howlers when reviewed by humans. (I briefly looked at Watson as an alternative in evaluating technology for a new learning system some years ago.)

[tinus_hn]

I also saw weather predictions ’powered by Watson’; it has be more than that

[weird-eye-issue]

It was the marketing name for IBM AI projects from my understanding

It's also possible that was total BS and they paid to put the "powered by Watson" there

[belthesar]

IBM ended up buying The Weather Company (Weather Channel, Accuweather) around the time when I was there. Lots of things were getting the "Powered by Watson" thing slapped on them around that time.

[weird-eye-issue]

Yep there we go. There is a huge difference between "marketing" and "reality" more often than not

[smt88]

Lots of things said "powered by Watson," but Watson was not a single system, nor did IBM actually add value in most cases (see: Watson Health, which was a catastrophe).

[atatatat]

Now you see why it worked. lol