i cringe every time i see "machine learning" and "ibm" in the same sentence. it's not because ibm research is subpar (if anything, id consider them second to none) but because their marketing efforts represents everything wrong with the current ai cycle - that is, selling magic beans to nontechnical and helpless buyers.
I knew of a few people who left our company to work in the Watson healthcare division sales side, post purchase of Merge Healthcare.
Everyone in the industry, assisted diagnosis, thought this was gonna be a game changer, with IBM with merge dominating.
They lasted about 9 months before coming back or going to another company.
Even what they were briefed to sell on, IBM couldn't exactly do all it was marketing.
