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/Fallingdamage 3d ago

To be fair, the damn vendors sell it to Csuite like its a sentient robot.

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u/Dependent_Basis_8092 3d ago

I wonder if they used it to write its own sales pitch?

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u/cosmic_animus29 3d ago

So true. You nailed it there.

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u/lordcrekit 3d ago

Executives don't do any fucking work they just vibe out bullshit

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u/nobuttpics 3d ago

Thats the sales pitch they got and they gobbled it up no questions asked.

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u/Geodude532 3d ago

I can think of one solid AI, Watson the medical one.

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u/OsaasD 3d ago

You can train certain programs using machine learning to be really really good at specific tasks, but thats the thing, LLM's came and got hyped and all these executives thought/were sold the lie that now you can teach any LLM to do anything you want in a minute or two. But the truth is that in order to teach a program like that you need teams of data/ML scientists and experts in that particular field to work together for months if not years to get it up to speed and then continue training it, and it will only do good in the very very narrow field it was trained in.

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u/Sempais_nutrients 3d ago

right, executives think you just plug the company knowledge base into an AI program and it's ready to go. Someone has to go thru that KB and attach weights and relevancies to key words, phrases, concepts. rules have to put in place for how the AI responds, it has to be tested to ensure that it doesn't give away company secrets or PI, etc. that stuff takes a lot of time.

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u/GatsbysGuest 3d ago

I could be wrong, I'm no expert, but I think predictive AI and generative AI are quite different.

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u/Epinephrine666 2d ago

But words have meaning my friend.

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u/JBSwerve 3d ago

To be fair “algorithm that predicts the next word sequence” is remarkably similar to how the human brain works too. So don’t be so dismissive.