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by tinus_hn 1803 days ago
I also saw weather predictions ’powered by Watson’; it has be more than that
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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

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.
Yep there we go. There is a huge difference between "marketing" and "reality" more often than not
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).
Now you see why it worked. lol