IBM Has a Long and Rich History of Showing Chatbots Bear No Business Prospects (From Jeopardy to Watson Healthcare and McDonalds)
Or "Second Life" before metaverse was made up, then cratered
They would call it "hey hi" now... (everything is called that now)
Chatbots are not new. They've been around for over half a century.
So has VR.
Why do we still use 2-D mice and mostly reject touchscreens? Aren't these... "old"?
As a child growing up, IBM was seen promoting itself with propaganda like tennis (computer-assisted measurements... what the media would nowadays somehow dub "hey hi") and decades prior to sports... it was Chess. IBM wanted to seem smart ("Think") and then increasingly "cool" for a rebellious generation.
Remember IBM faking/emulating intelligence in board games and game shows?
Later they tried to kid us into thinking IBM crapware will replace our medical practitioners (sounds familiar, right, Scam Altman?).
How did it work out? Ask disillusioned or cynical or disgruntled (even sarcastic) insiders. Here's a discussion from hours ago about some new lies about "quantum" hiring (by 2031!).
Isn't it ironic? Remember how Krishna shilled "blockchains" when "Gin" was in charge of IBM.
Here in the UK, the NHS is bribed and manipulated into outsourcing to the US (not a new problem; hardly a new issue), but don't expect slop companies run by people who never finished college to replace your GP (General Practitioner). Slop is a bubble. Get used to it. The bribe money will run dry, eventually. Shareholders will pull the rug.
Related and new (SoylentNews): "Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company"
Watson Healthcare is already in the dustpan, so they are rebranding it again. █
