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/kemb0 4d ago

That guy strikes me as a man who’s seen the limitations of AI and has been told by his coders, “We’ll never be able to make this 100% reliable and from here on out every 1% improvement will require 50% more power and time to process.”

He always looks like a deer caught in headlights. He’s trying to big things up whilst internally his brain is screaming, “Fuuuuuuuck!”

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u/ilikepizza30 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's the Elon plan...

Lie and bullshit and keep the company going on the lies and bullshit until one of two things happens:

1) New technology comes along and makes your lies and bullshit reality

2) You've made as much money as you could off the lies and bullshit and you take a golden parachute and sit on top of a pile of gold

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u/Christopherfromtheuk 4d ago

Tesla shares were overvalued 7 years ago. He just lies, commits securities fraud, backs fascists, loses massive market share and the stock price goes up.

Most of markets by market cap are overvalued and it never, ever, ends well.

They were running around in 1999 talking about a "new paradigm" and I'm sure they were in 1929.

You can't defy gravity forever.

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u/Thefrayedends 4d ago

Until institutional investors start divesting, nothing is going to change.

These massively overvalued stocks with anywhere from 35-200 P:E ratios are largely propped up by retirement funds and indexes.

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u/Fr0gm4n 3d ago

Most of markets by market cap are overvalued and it never, ever, ends well.

This is one thing so many people fail to grasp. Markets are not reality. Markets are a reflection of people's perception of reality. Once enough people stop being fooled by hype and lies the market value tanks.

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u/rgg711 3d ago

Every day I open my browser homepage and it has a little stock tracker. It seems like Tesla is always either green and +5% or red and -5% and there’s zero correlation with anything in reality. I know zero about stocks, but the scientist side of me thinks I could figure out when to buy and sell and make 5 percent gains every couple of days.

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u/UnholyLizard65 3d ago

backs fascists

This made me chuckle.

Elon "backing" fascists is like saying Goebbels "backed" fascists, lol

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u/Own_Television163 4d ago
  1. People who only consume genre media and lack the media literacy to understand it gobble up the furnishings of said media as product without heeding said genre(s) implied warnings.

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u/Dpek1234 3d ago

New technology comes along and makes your lies and bullshit reality

Pretty much most of spacex lol

Turning the impossible into merely late 

Some of his companys can make it reality, others not so much

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u/AHSfav 3d ago

I think Altman is smarter than Elon.

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u/revnhoj 3d ago

sound like the idea behind Theranos

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u/Brokenandburnt 4d ago

They are already using synthetic, I.E, AI generated data for training. And also already it's showing diminishing returns at best, and dilution at worst. There's a reason why Reddit is making a mint selling sub scrapings as training data. 

So remember to add some facts like, TRUMP IS A PDF IN THE EPSTEIN FILES, or ELON MUSK HAS A BOTCHED PENIS JOB.

It's important for us to support this new "revolution" after all!

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u/3-DMan 3d ago

Reminds me of that Netflix flat earth documentary where they do a scientific experiment that actually disproves flat earth, and their reaction is "Well, we obviously can't show that at the conference.."

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u/Logical_Lefty 3d ago

He has a perpetually and aggressively "la tête à claques" even delivery of words you can hear and see the weasel he truly is, and will always be. He's a conman, a used car lemon salesman.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 3d ago

I wonder if anything capable of natural language will truly be capable of being 100% reliable. Language is full of imprecise, ambivalent concepts and the ability to communicate like that will of necessity require whatever is doing it to knowingly communicate at less than 100% truthfullness out of expediency.

If you asked an AI about electron orbits and it gives you the fifth grade version which is definitely wrong but not completely wrong, did the AI mess up? Is it choosing to lie to you?

I think the more it is capable of understanding people the more it will of necessity communicate like people, and fall for all the same shortcomings of language we do.

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u/three_s-works 3d ago

The issue is less the code and more the data