IBM and NASA Hop onto the AI Clown Car

Guess what? IBM and NASA, two absolute relics of tech and space, have finally managed to pull themselves out of the Stone Age to announce the release of their ‘oh-so-pioneering’ foundation model, watsonx.ai. Yippee! To sweeten the deal, they’ve uploaded this garbage to Hugging Face, which, if you didn’t know, is the internet’s playground for playing with other people’s outdated AI models.

Implications of this Groundbreaking-Not Technology

In the off chance anyone cares, this supposedly world-shaking foundation model will, wait for it… help geospatial analysis. Yeah, you heard me. All that ruckus for something as thrilling as geospatial analysis. We’re talking your 10th grade geography-teacher-wet-dream stuff here. Analysts, researchers, and other nerds alike might get a jolly out of this by gaining access to more data to solve ‘complex’ problems. Because, you know, staring at space and making sense of it is a hobby for some. For the rest of us sane people, it’s about as exciting as watching paint dry.

The Snarky Take-Away

So, in conclusion, a pair of old titans, IBM and NASA, have rolled out their pathetic excuse for a modern technological advancement. Joining the bustling golden agers club at Hugging Face, they dropped a ground-breaking (excuse the sarcasm) geospatial model that’ll make geography nerds weak at the knees – while the rest of us yawn and scroll on. I guess it’s true what they say: you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. So throw them a bone and give their new toy a pity glance.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-and-nasa-deploy-open-source-geospatial-ai-foundation-model-on-hugging-face/