I had problems with Watson to the effect that not even the documentation matches reality. There are some fairly basic things missing from their NERC offering. I can tell you that the functionality that is missing is so basic (e.g. negation) that without a doubt, no one in IBM has ever used this offering in practise beyond a toy example.
The idea that IBM Watson is some uniform AI in a box with a bunch of REST API's to "expose" its intelligence seems to be the sales pitch. It's not. It's just a bunch of acquired products (you can see this when e.g. Watson Knowledge Studio breaks and you see the Python scripts that glues everything together in the backend) that are poorly integrated, probably because the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing.
The idea that IBM Watson is some uniform AI in a box with a bunch of REST API's to "expose" its intelligence seems to be the sales pitch. It's not. It's just a bunch of acquired products (you can see this when e.g. Watson Knowledge Studio breaks and you see the Python scripts that glues everything together in the backend) that are poorly integrated, probably because the left hand has no idea what the right hand is doing.
Caveat emptor!
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