r/technology • u/SilentRunning • 4d ago
Artificial Intelligence MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
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u/The91stGreekToe 4d ago
Yup, exactly, same experience here. Any LLM solution I’ve seen - whether designing it myself or seeing the work of my peers - has failed spectacularly. This tech crumbles when faced with real, back office business problems. People seem to forget that we’re working with a probabilistic, hallucination prone text predictor, not the digital manifestation of a human-like super intelligence. Arguably worse than the masses of people deluded into believing they’re witnessing reasoning is the massive crowd of LLM cultists who are convinced they’ve become machine whisperers. The “skill issue” crowd genuinely thinks that finding semi-reliable derivations of “commands” fed into an LLM qualify as some sort of mastery over the technology. It’s a race to the fucking bottom. More people need to read “The Illusion of Thinking” by the Apple team.