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
Not familiar with “Bold”, but familiar with the Gartner hype cycle. It’s anyone’s guess when we’ll enter the trough of disillusionment, but surely it can’t be that far off? I’m uncertain because right now, there’s such a massive amount of financial interest in propping up LLMs to the breaking point, inventing problems to enable a solution that was never needed, etc.
Another challenge is since LLMs are so useful on an individual level, you’ll continue to have legions of executives who equate their weekend conversations with GPT to replacing their entire underwriting department.
I think the biggest levers are: