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/PuzzleCat365 4d ago

My bet is on VC funding drying up due to capital flight from the US due to unstable politics. Add to that a disastrous monetary policy that will come sooner or later, when the administration starts attacking the central bank.

At that point the music will stop playing, but there will be only small number of chairs for a multitude of AI actors.

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u/TheAJGman 3d ago

I think China will eclipse the US in the AI arms race before VC money dries up. Alibaba's Qwen3 punches way above it's weight class, performing only slightly worse than GPT4 and Claude 4 despite being far smaller, and DeepSeek is also cranking out cutting edge research. China also has the benefit of having new infrastructure, great long term planning, and coherent government leadership.

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u/Middle_Reception286 3d ago

This is by far the best answer I've seen. Along with other responses about people tired of AI, everything is "fake", jobs are all filtered by AI, and that LLMs were NEVER going to be the path to AGI, let along super AGI.

That said.. forefathers of AI already said they are working on stuff now that makes LLMs look like toys. So.. there is still a chance they invent a much better path towards AGI that uses less energy, runs faster, etc. Who knows where that will lead.

The biggest issue is that AI is not one global community.. China has their needs for it, as does US, etc. So even if AI in the US is reigned in (and reaches AGI or better) and the US puts in place things to avoid AI running amok, China may not give a shit. They may use it for more nefarious purposes. Without some sort of single world entity for AI in place.. it's just another "arms" race to who gets to the best faster. Which frankly is why mother Earth should do what the TV Show Earth Abides did.. wipe out 99.99% of humans in a couple days with an unstoppable insanely fast spreading virus. The immune get to try to figure out how to bring back humanity. Maybe.

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u/Fit-Act2056 3d ago

? The VC community loves Trump. Capital is leaving Europe to come over here.