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by weird-eye-issue 1804 days ago
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
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belthesar 1804 days ago
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.
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weird-eye-issue 1804 days ago
Yep there we go. There is a huge difference between "marketing" and "reality" more often than not
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