I think maybe the common problem is that there’s a hidden and false assumption that being good in one domain will transfer elsewhere, it doesn’t and didn’t

That was the last time IBM was cool.

That and it was cool when Watson won at Jeopardy.

I think the above poster's point was that they think Watson's point was to build a Jeopardy machine (and hype).

The Jeopardy thing was pretty brilliant in a sense - wrangling an episode of free advertising from one of the most popular game shows. A memorable episode at that!