How far IBM have fallen...

[ThoughtArtist]

IBM's latest innovation:

Women's dresses with lights

[tp4tissue]

Also...  Bring back original Thinkpad keyboards with the Blue Enter key..

[ThoughtArtist]

Also...  Bring back original Thinkpad keyboards with the Blue Enter key..

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Perhaps a "cognitive" enter key...

[tp4tissue]

Also...  Bring back original Thinkpad keyboards with the Blue Enter key..

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Perhaps a "cognitive" enter key...

Backlit is for n00bs..

[katushkin]

To be fair... Watson is pretty ****ing awesome.

They are falling behind HPE in the enterprise hardware area, the fact they don't even support their own equipment in the UK is a sign they are struggling.

Watson though. That thing is pretty impressive tbf.

[duynguyenle]

To be fair... Watson is pretty ****ing awesome.

They are falling behind HPE in the enterprise hardware area, the fact they don't even support their own equipment in the UK is a sign they are struggling.

Watson though. That thing is pretty impressive tbf.

Falling behind HPE, that's pretty damning (full disclosure, the client I currently work for uses HPE for their enterprise IT. They're... not very good...)

[chyros]

IIRC IBM still put in more patents every year than any other company in the world. Don't mess with Big Blue, yo.

[tp4tissue]

To be fair... Watson is pretty ****ing awesome.

They are falling behind HPE in the enterprise hardware area, the fact they don't even support their own equipment in the UK is a sign they are struggling.

Watson though. That thing is pretty impressive tbf.

Falling behind HPE, that's pretty damning (full disclosure, the client I currently work for uses HPE for their enterprise IT. They're... not very good...)

I think we should also short oracle. their outsourced India support is so terrible nowadays.

[katushkin]

Falling behind HPE, that's pretty damning (full disclosure, the client I currently work for uses HPE for their enterprise IT. They're... not very good...)

We use HPE for most of our infrastructure. We still have some IBM storage arrays, but they outsource their parts and engineer services to another company. Our HPE stuff isn't actually that bad. Yeah it fails a lot, but it will with the sheer amount of stuff we have in our DC. Their support is quick, we can get parts+engineer within four hours if needs be, so I wouldn't say their service is as bad as, say BT Openreach.

[jaffers]

As cool as Watson is, it's pretty useless unless they ca monetize it. Money doesn't appear with good ideas, you actually have to develop and execute it. It's interesting to follow what they do and a lady with a led dress is just one of many departments, I'm sure they have something cooking though, they are a smart af company

[katushkin]

As cool as Watson is, it's pretty useless unless they ca monetize it. Money doesn't appear with good ideas, you actually have to develop and execute it. It's interesting to follow what they do and a lady with a led dress is just one of many departments, I'm sure they have something cooking though, they are a smart af company

Well, useless for the companies revenues maybe, but for future development of nations, healthcare, and AI in general, it's pretty great.

[JaccoW]

As cool as Watson is, it's pretty useless unless they ca monetize it. Money doesn't appear with good ideas, you actually have to develop and execute it. It's interesting to follow what they do and a lady with a led dress is just one of many departments, I'm sure they have something cooking though, they are a smart af company

Well, useless for the companies revenues maybe, but for future development of nations, healthcare, and AI in general, it's pretty great.

We had a IBM Watson night at work where IBM came to show what they could do with it. It's analytics capabilities are pretty impressive.

As for monetization... I believe Ross was still free earlier this year.

[katushkin]

We had a IBM Watson night at work where IBM came to show what they could do with it. It's analytics capabilities are pretty impressive.

As for monetization... I believe Ross was still free earlier this year.

Damn, that wasn't developed by IBM as well was it?

[jaffers]

As cool as Watson is, it's pretty useless unless they ca monetize it. Money doesn't appear with good ideas, you actually have to develop and execute it. It's interesting to follow what they do and a lady with a led dress is just one of many departments, I'm sure they have something cooking though, they are a smart af company

Well, useless for the companies revenues maybe, but for future development of nations, healthcare, and AI in general, it's pretty great.

We had a IBM Watson night at work where IBM came to show what they could do with it. It's analytics capabilities are pretty impressive.

As for monetization... I believe Ross was still free earlier this year.

Now this is a good example of AI put to use. I remember watching a video a few years ago about automation and what will realistically happen and it said that things like trawling through emails and going over legal documents is something that consumes a lot of time and likely to be replaced. Looks like that is starting to happen.

It specifically touched on the point that an attorney/lawyer could get tired or miss something and that a computer doesn't necessarily have to be perfect, it just has to make less mistakes than a human

[JaccoW]

We had a IBM Watson night at work where IBM came to show what they could do with it. It's analytics capabilities are pretty impressive.

As for monetization... I believe Ross was still free earlier this year.

Damn, that wasn't developed by IBM as well was it?

Yes it was.

Now this is a good example of AI put to use. I remember watching a video a few years ago about automation and what will realistically happen and it said that things like trawling through emails and going over legal documents is something that consumes a lot of time and likely to be replaced. Looks like that is starting to happen.

It specifically touched on the point that an attorney/lawyer could get tired or miss something and that a computer doesn't necessarily have to be perfect, it just has to make less mistakes than a human

It is actually happening. I was impressed feeding it large documents or even Excel data and it figuring out connections and representing data that it thought was important. And then customizing it to something you can use and have a set of good looking charts and sheets ready to use in seconds.

Healthcare is another field where sifting through tons of research looking for the right link can make a big difference.
The whole cognitive part is what suddenly makes computers work smarter and faster than we could have imagined a few years ago.

A really good read on AI is over at Waitbutwhy.com.
It will happen faster than we realize and disturb some really big industries. It won't just be manual labour but even jobs in finance such as accountants are probably not safe in a (few) decade(s).

[Elrick]

Backlit is for n00bs..

It's for Moths, which is what the younger generation is these days  .