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Has anyone worked with IBM Watson? How is it like?

Has anyone worked with IBM Watson? How is it like?
Is it a set of programmable APIs?
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In terms of branding, "Watson" is like "Docker"; it refers to a set of different and unrelated things under the same umbrella name:

* Watson Assistant, an API for building chatbots and virtual assistants
* Watson Studio, an IDE for AI modeling and analysis
* Watson Knowledge Catalog, a storage engine optimized for data collection

and so on. With a few exceptions, all of these tools and services are effectively separate things and don't have anything to do with each other.

In general the tools are proprietary, aren't open source, and can't easily be trialed or downloaded except through an enterprise sales contract. So no one has any experience with them except IBM. Effectively this means your company pays IBM a boatload of money to be expensive consultants to train you on their own tools.