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Evans: Microsoft Copilot is an umbrella brand of disconnected features like IBM Watson
“Copilot is rather like Watson. It's a brand name that represents an, that represents every single PM at Microsoft had to add an AI feature as part of their quarterly goals. And so every, every third button at Microsoft And every Microsoft product is purple and…”
Benedict Evans Aug 16, 2026 ▶ 23:15 AI deployment
Hyman: Google and IBM Watson lack data to match Sapia.ai
“It's something that IBM tried to do with Watson for a couple of decades, but couldn't because they didn't have the data. And even though Google has 10,000 PhDs working in NLP, they can't do it either because they don't have the data.”
Barb Hyman May 28, 2022 ▶ 2:20 She Hit $6m Bootstrapped for HR Tool, Will Place 200,000 Candidates This Year
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Deploying AI systems requires explicit evidence behind recommendations
“One of the things we learned about systems like Watson, if you're going to deploy it is people want to know why. You know, give it an answer, and they go, they want evidence.”
Michael Karasick Jan 15, 2015 ▶ 15:49 Michael Karasick, IBM Watson // Data Driven #33 // Jan 2015 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

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