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Artificial intelligence (AI) is well and truly on the map, according to IBM CFO Martin Schroeter. The exec told analysts on a Q4 earnings call Thursday that the debate about whether the technology is real or not is "over". Schroeter was specifically referring to AI's utility in addressing business problems, citing IBM's stepped-up deployment of its Watson AI platform as an enterprise-level, problem solver for vertical industries serves as evidence. Schroeter called Watson the "silver thread" in IBM's cognitive solutions portfolio, but stopped short of terming it a lever significant enough to overcome the vendor's nearly five-year sales tumble. In IBM's just completed Q4, its cognitive solutions sales rose a scant 1.4 percent to $5.3 billion.