[andwur]

Well there's Watson [1]. It obviously performed very well in Jeopardy! and it sounds like they had some novel ideas and techniques behind the implementation.

I'm not sure how cool this is anymore however. Our company was evaluating their Bluemix [2] cloud all-the-things-as-a-service service which offers Watson. Despite their very aggressive marketing team insisting it would be able to solve a very wide range of "machine learning problems" (their words, not mine) it fell down quickly when encountering problems outside their example data-set. It was also impossible to get in touch with an engineer there, the only people you could speak to were sales and/or marketing which were useless. I get the feeling their desired clientele are technically illiterate upper-management who merely want the guarantee of a massive corporation's support and to hell with their technical capabilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer) [2] https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/bluemix/

[rocgf]

That is because IBM is a huge corporation, with loads of red tape. As an engineer, you are not allowed to talk directly to customers without a certain training/certification. Even if their engineers had the time and would be willing to do it, they are not allowed to.