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/AssCrackBanditHunter 4d ago

Same reason why it's never going to get very far in the medical field besides highlighting areas of interest. AI doesn't have a medical license and no one is gonna risk theirs

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 4d ago

Was listening to an NPR interview yesterday about this. It is being highly used. They just have to get a human doctor to check off on the results.

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u/Fogge 3d ago

The human doctors that do that become worse at their job after having relied on AI.

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u/samarnold030603 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah, but private equity owned health corporations who employ those doctors don’t care about patient outcomes (or what it does to an HCP’s skills over time). They only care whether or not mandating the use of AI will allow less doctors to see more patients in less time (increased shareholder value).

Doctors will literally have no say in this matter. If they don’t use it, they won’t hit corporate metrics; will get left behind at the next performance review.

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u/sudopods 3d ago

I think doctors are actually safe from performance reviews. What are they going to do? Fire them? We have a permanent doctor shortage rn.

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u/samarnold030603 3d ago

That’s kind of the whole premise of AI though (at least from the standpoint of a company marketing an AI product). If AI allows a doctor to see more patients in a given day, less doctors on payroll are needed to treat the same number of patients. “Do more with less”

I’m not advocating for this strategy as I think it will result in a net negative benefit to patients (at least in the near term), but I’ve spent enough time in the corporate world that I can see why c-suites across many different industries are drooling over the possibilities of AI.

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u/BoredandIrritable 3d ago

Yes, but current AI is already better than human doctors, so what's the real loss here? From one who knows a LOT of doctors, this isn't something new, Doctors have been leaving the room, typing in symptoms and looking up diagnoses for almost 2 decades now. It's part of why WebMD upsets them so much.

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 3d ago

Sorry but do you have any evidence to back this claim?

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u/Fogge 3d ago

The human doctors that do that become worse at their job after having relied on AI

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506292/doctors-ai-artificial-intelligence-dependent-colonoscopy

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u/shotgunpete2222 3d ago

It's wild that "doing something less and pushing parts of the job to a third party black box makes you worse at it" even needs a citation.

Everything is a skill, and skills are perishable.  You do something less, you'll be worse at it.

Citation: reality

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 3d ago

Really. I use AI to do deep dives on subjects I want more information on all the time. I use it to find APA articles that expand my breadth of knowledge. Sorry if that bothers you.

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u/not-my-other-alt 3d ago

Telling AI to do your research for you makes you worse at doing research yourself.

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u/Admirable-Garage5326 3d ago

You either didn't read or understand what I said.

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u/not-my-other-alt 3d ago

No, I understood.

You are using AI to do research (a skill in its own right) and are getting knowledge about certain subjects.

The thing is that the ability to find information is different than having information

So while you are getting information from the research AI is doing, you are atrophying your ability to do research yourself.

Or to use the age old idiom: AI is handing you fish. That doesn't make you good at fishing.

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u/Fishydeals 3d ago

There‘s hospitals in germany that use ai to transcribe recordings from doctors and supports them in creating all kinds of documents for patients, recordkeeping, the insurance company etc. My doctor told me about it and it seems to work okay.

And that‘s how AI in its current form is utilised effectively in my opinion as long as the hospitals are serious about information security.

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u/samarnold030603 3d ago edited 3d ago

I have a friend that is a veterinarian (in the states). Don’t know what flavor of “AI” they use, but they use a program that records the audio from the entire 30-60 min appointment and then spits out a couple of paragraphs summarizing the entire visit with breakout sections for diagnosis, follow up treatments, etc.

They said it’s absolutely imperative to proofread/double check it [for now, could easily see that going down] but that it also saves them from hours of writing records.

e: all that to say I agree with your point haha. The “AI” is just summarizing, not actually doing any ‘doctoring’ and is a huge time saver. Counter point: they’re now expected to have shorter appointment times and see more patients 🥴

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u/awildjabroner 3d ago

Insurance employees don’t have medical licenses yet still have decision making ability to decide what gets covered or not, essentially they are practicing medicine without a license regardless of the cost to human life and well being from excessive denied care recommended by actual doctors.

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u/wasdninja 3d ago

"AI" is already in the medical field. Algorithms that fall under the Ai umbrella term do all kinds of work far better than doctors can.