[stonemetal]

> IBM to launch an LLM in 2040.

What about Watson? How did it generate language? My understanding is it output language well enough to match what LLMs do today.

[zdragnar]

Watson was a different flavor of NLP that was turned into a gimmick. The jeopardy show it was on was not exactly what it appeared to be.

According to someone who worked on it, it would fail a second grade level reading exam: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-...

[tiagod]

My understanding is it's not even close to the output and capability of modern LLMs