> "The companies that are advancing machine learning and AI don't brand it with some nominally specious name that's named after a Sherlock Holmes character."<p>The fact that he doesn't check a statement before speaking it on TV really speaks to how seriously you should take the rest of the article.<p>>IBM isn't at the forefront of artificial intelligence, Social Capital CEO and founder Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Monday, and he certainly isn't a fan of IBM's Watson.<p>>"At the end of the day, when you are making deep methodical investments in technology companies, it is fundamentally first and foremost about the jockey," he said.<p>Err, so does the tech matter or not?
If Geoff Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Andrew Ng or any other reputed ML/AI scientist would have said Watson "is a joke" I'd give their opinion more weight.<p>I don't think those guys would because there's plenty of R&D happening at Watson and Almaden Research Labs.<p>Seems like everybody's slinging mud at big blue these days...