Enterprises Are Not Going To Miss The Fourth Wave Of AI
The Next Platform, Friday, July 14,2023
IBM announced its Watsonx software development stack back in May, and today it is starting to ship it to customers. We wanted to know exactly what the heck it is. And so we reached out to Sriram Raghavan, vice president of AI strategy and roadmaps at IBM Research, to get a handle on what Watsonx is and why it will be important for the commercialization of large language models.
Let's talk about the why before the what.
The way that Raghavan sees it, there have been four different waves of artificial intelligence. And despite Big Blue's best efforts with its Watson stack of software, famously first used to play the Jeopardy! game show and beat human experts back in February 2011, it has not really been much of a commercial success in the enterprise for the first two waves.
But with the current wave of AI, says Raghavan, enterprises, governments, and educational institutions - many of whom are customers of IBM's systems and systems software - are not going to miss the boat this time.