Comment by bayindirh

IBM is an interesting beast when it comes to business decisions. While I can't give exact details, their business intelligence and ability to predict monetary things is uncannily spot-on at times.

So, when their CEO says that this investment will not pay off, I tend to believe them, because they most probably have the knowledge, insight and data to back that claim, and they have ran the numbers.

Oh, also, please let's not forget that they dabbled in "big AI" before everyone else. Anyone remembers Deep Blue and Watson, the original chatbot backed by big data?