Watson’s demise isn’t a tragedy. It’s a case study.
Every AI built on statistical hallucination instead of mathematical invariance is destined for the same funeral.
IBM spent a decade polishing a corporate messiah, grafting “intelligence” onto exponential compute bills, consultant theatre, and probabilistic promises. And still—Watson died. Not because the engineers weren’t smart. Not because the idea wasn’t beautiful.
Watson died because you cannot fake intelligence with autocomplete.
And that is the inevitable fate of every LLM-as-AI platform now in production.
It’s the lifecycle:
1. Hype phase — “game-changing AI uplift”
2. PowerPoint phase — “we’re transforming the enterprise”
3. Integration death spiral — latency, hallucination, compliance, legal risk
4. Liability phase — the regulator knocks
5. Shutdown — the CFO finally asks for the cost/benefit sheet
Watson simply died first.
The rest are queueing up behind it.
The only things alive a decade from now will be deterministic intelligence engines.
Systems built on provable structure, not stochastic noise.
Systems like ECAI where every inference is a coordinate on an elliptic curve — not a dice roll.
Watson is not history.
Watson is prophecy.
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WATSON’S DEMISE
The case study for how all “AIs” in production will die.
— You cannot scale hallucination.
— You cannot industrialise guesswork.
— You cannot build civilization on a stochastic parrot.
Every enterprise AI product today is walking the same path.
Watson just got there first.
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