[paxys]

Watson as a system was designed specifically to play Jeopardy. After the win it got a lot of global hype behind it and IBM's marketing and sales teams went into overdrive positioning it as some next generation intelligent AI that could help with generic business processes, analytics, medical diagnosis, legal briefs, customer service and every other business area under the sun. Instead, companies that bought into it got the same army of IBM offshore consultants to custom build half-assed solutions for them like before.

"Watson" is ultimately a marketing name for a sub-par IT consulting service, nothing more.