Move comes a year after layoffs at company's technology services group
Hmmmmm. . .didn't Ginni just recently tout in an interview with Cramer that the goal for Watson would be mostly just augmenting human workloads, not actually outright replacing a significant portion of human-held jobs?
"The move announced Wednesday follows a series of job cuts at IBM's Global Technology Services division last year that were billed as a strategy shift toward more cloud computing and AI operations. But Van den Daele said the announcement about his division's new emphasis on AI-based software "is in no way linked to our work rebalancing. We are focused on driving the next level of innovation in infrastructure. We are not doing it to create labor efficiencies."
Talk about pissing down your back and then telling you it's raining. . .
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-12/ibm-revamps-computer-network-unit-around-watson-artificial-intelligence