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jonathankoren on Jan 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What's Up with Google?

IBM made Deep Blue, Watson (the Jeopardy player), two of the 10 most powerful computers in service today, and outperformed the S&P 500 from 2001 to 2014.

What's your point? A gigacorp has tons of inertia?

alphabetting on Jan 22, 2022 [–]

My point was they're leading the field in AI when it is the future. What they're doing goes way beyond what Watson was. IBM also wasn't a trillion dollar company growing at 40% https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1453089818402041857

jonathankoren on Jan 23, 2022 | [–]

Alright fanboi. You’re clearly not serious

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