I don't think it was an outright scam, but its use in medical analysis turned out to be very poor: https://qz.com/2129025/where-did-ibm-go-wrong-with-watson-he...

Definitely over-hyped technology. Probably not a scam though.

Consider that the Jeopardy stunt was basically a sales pitch saying: "If it can do that for Jeopardy, then just imagine what it can do for you!"

There is definitely an argument to be made that this was an empty promise. Not necessarily enough to call it a "scam", but vaporware...

In light of the large language models from Vaswani et al., I'm curious if anyone could chime in:

1. Does Watson incorporate any deep learning?

2. If not, why? Were disagreements based in business or theory?

"If IBM Watson can find hidden correlations that help your business, then why can't IBM Watson stem a 3 year sales drop at IBM?" - random Twitter user