Only IBM
Could purchase a company, rename it, and use it as an example of “organic growth” all within the same year….
How blind are their investors??
IBM on Monday unveiled watsonx AI Labs, a New York City hub where startups, researchers, and IBM engineers are expected to co-create agentic AI tools for enterprise use. "Located in the heart of Manhattan at IBM's new offices at One Madison, watsonx AI Labs extends IBM's global network of engineering labs, bringing together …
You mean the 95 year-old ladies who hold onto the stock because they are "Big Blue chip stocks?"
No joke, my wife has a handful of these folks as clients. One passed away recently and they are still going through all of the stock certificates and getting information for the approximately $6 million worth of these old blue chip stocks.
But as soon as I read the line
> software agent that could take the result of that query and turn it into a graph
I wondered how much SeekAI is feeding end-user inputs back into their AI model so that it learns to generate the most commonly requested graph formats and associated decorative items as its first response to a data graphing request: i.e. when simply asked to "draw a graph to include these figures" it generates an "infographic" to wow the boardroom.
Then couple the above with the ease of asking for the graphic to be enhanced by adding descriptions to your text prompt, instead of laboriously creating all the imagery and inserting your specific stats to control the shape, size, colour, texture etc of the infographic components. Allowing every office worker to (re)create the infographics to present the data in a way that is meaningful to them.
Now, if we do get a system learning to first generate graphics based upon the most frequently requested design from all its users, which is now rolled out to all of IBM's customer base, I would give it two months before the default graph is a Cock and Pi Chart Balls. With meaningful size, colour and texture.
It's absolutely going to happen. My maths skills and prompt engineering fail to adequately describe two upside-down semi-circles with a locus half-way below the centre of each, but that too will pass as surely as my male peers would pass me the calculator with 80085 on it.
Careful with those capital letters, wouldn't want to catch the eye of a billionaire who might demand to buy it out from under you. It'd be terrible to lose such a well-respected brand from IBM's portfolio.
Could be a cunning plan to extract some of his ill-gotten billions. (t)wats-on-X to elon-X ... only change is the name, the meaning is conserved.
Some of us are still aware he was the "leader" in IBM who facilitated the Holocaust, including smuggling machinery to the Nazis during WW2
Naming an AI after an unabashed nazi supporter was in very poor taste
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers-willing-business-partners/303146/
(Yes, I get that Watson was Holme's sidekick, but the AI wasn't named after that ficticious character)
From this comment posted to the 'Fark' website last year:-
My last stop before I retired was IBM. About ten years ago, when Watson was still going to cure cancer, I told one of our Distinguished Engineers: "You will know Watson is failing if they start slapping the brand name on unrelated stuff like conventional analytics in a desperate bid to goose the revenues."And here we are.