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Posted by artpar 1 day ago

IBM Bob(bob.ibm.com)
285 points | 298 commentspage 4
cmiles8 15 hours ago|
Ever since the Watson debacle I just run the other way anytime IBM turns up wanting to talk about AI
rf15 9 hours ago|
just AI? Have you seen the other rubbish they try to peddle?
NickHirras 11 hours ago||
It takes a while to actually login while it provisions some cloud infrastructure in your name. Let's see if it can build something interesting!
NickHirras 11 hours ago|
Still provisioning...
NickHirras 1 hour ago||
And, still provisioning 10 hours later.
cisrockandroll 1 day ago||
Is this just a harness or using a proprietary model in the background? Anthropic and OpenAI are already very well trained in IBM system i and z knowledge. Unless Bob is somehow improving the integration to these midrange and mainframe systems I literally dont see any benefit to using Bob. IBM will just kill this proprietary tech in 5 years as they are currently doing with RDi or forget about updating it like SEU.
kbwal7 22 hours ago|
I think it's just a harness that uses proprietary (or maybe IBM is hosting open weight?) models. They say on the site (in the FAQs) that you can't even choose which model!

So it seems to be a harness that auto-routes your queries with no way to change this.

EagnaIonat 22 hours ago|||
You are correct. It routes to the model best suited for the ask.

The only positive versus others is that at an enterprise level you have more control of the costs with the coins.

getatme32 21 hours ago||
except they tack on surcharges to all token calls to Claude and GPT
jenkstom 21 hours ago|||
IBM has models trained for older mainframe usage (RPG II, RPG/400, COBOL, etc) so I imagine it would be very good for that. Bob looks like a branded fork of vs code or vscodium.
maxbobby 19 hours ago||
No one at IBM remembers Microsoft Bob (one of the earliest, if not the earliest virtual assistants) from the 90s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
bigmattystyles 19 hours ago|
I'm convinced they do and they're trolling us.How many 100s of 1000s in consulting do you think it took to come up with Bob?
gowld 19 hours ago||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_the_Builder very common to copy.
DeathArrow 1 day ago||
31 years after Microsoft Bob, IBM releases it's own IBM Bob. :)
Nelson69 23 hours ago||
I thought MS killed that name forever.
someguyiguess 1 day ago|||
It's like they're begging for failure
ginko 1 day ago|||
Call it PC Bob
Apocryphon 20 hours ago||
Better than IBM Tay.
bob1029 1 day ago||
I like how the solitary review is word salad.
legitster 22 hours ago||
This is especially funny when you realize how much money IBM dumped into Watson over all these years.
pram 23 hours ago||
I thought the image was a joke, but you really pay with Bobcoins.. lmao

https://bob.ibm.com/pricing

UncleSlacky 18 hours ago||
Funny, because "bob" is slang for shillings in the old LSD pre-decimal British currency system (coins worth 5 pence in the modern system).
annoyingnoob 18 hours ago||
If only one could generate bobcoin using their GPU, only to use the bobcoin to use someone else's GPU.
stefangordon 19 hours ago||
I can't tell if this is an excellent joke, or a sad not-joke.
jonwinstanley 19 hours ago|
Feels like a manager with no branding skills had an initial “vision” and everyone working there probably hoped marketing/branding would get pulled in later.

Never happened.

1970-01-01 20 hours ago|
NYSE: IBM -20% YTD.

I promise you Bob isn't going to fix the long-term stupidity.

altmanaltman 20 hours ago||
Bob Shrugged
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