IBM Aims To Meld AI With Human Resources With Watson Suite (zdnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:03PM from the digital-transformation dept.

PolygamousRanchKid shares a report from ZDNet (with some commentary): IBM has launched a unit designed for human resources to better find talent and recruit using artificial intelligence. The company is wrapping its latest HR effort, dubbed IBM Talent & Transformation, which includes select Watson services. According to IBM, its suite of AI tools can help HR become a growth engine to enable digital transformation. AI can be used to revamp workflow, employee engagement, recruitment and retention while providing a more diverse workforce. (I can still program Fortran; I learned it from Forman S. Acton -- does that make me diverse enough?) Big Blue's Talent & Transformation suite includes a Watson Talent Suite that rolls up behavioral science, AI and psychology and applies it to HR. (Sounds like the recipe for The Apocalypse to me.) IBM Garage, which serves as a test bed to meld HR, AI and culture, will also be available. (Garage? It sounds like the creepy CRISPR basement of a mad scientist to me.)

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Watson is a would-be marketing breakthrough by Anonymous Coward · 2018-11-28 15:22 · Score: 2, Interesting

If it was a true technology breakthrough, IBM would not need to spend so many millions of dollars and so many years explaining it to people, and yet still have nobody able to explaind what they learned about it from IBM and how to apply it to any known problem.
Once people saw personal computers being used, they "got it".
Once people saw tablet computers being used, they "got it"
Once people saw cell phones, and later, smart phones in use, they "got it"
Has anybody seen any real-world application for Watson????
The whole AI thing is a sick joke anyway. There's no such thing. People do not yet even understand ACTUAL intelligence in living beings. What we have today in the computer world is SIMULATED intelligence, which is a galaxy away from artificial intelligence. I have no doubt that simulations of intelligence will become increasingly impressive and useful, (and yes, the errors will become spectacular and probably even eventually lethal). But there should be no confusion about the fact that these systems as impressive as they become actually KNOW nothing, UNDERSTAND nothing, and are ultimately just extremely impressive wind-up toys.