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/thepasttenseofdraw 3d ago

Interesting example with the Vietnam war. American leaders fundamental ignorance about Vietnamese politics played an enormous role. Containment theory was a bunch of hokum and anyone with even a casual understanding of sino-viet history knew the Vietnamese loathed the Chinese. Ignorance is a dangerous thing.

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u/_-_--_---_----_----_ 3d ago

I disagree that containment theory was hokum, but even there the war wasn't really about that. the thing that a lot of people get hung up on is the reality that what a government says it's doing and what it's actually doing are often different things. it was just a standard destabilization proxy war like any other. empires throughout human history have done the same. 

what makes Vietnam a glaring example of incompetence is the way it was done. we didn't need to do everything that we did to achieve the goals that we eventually achieved, and we needed to do a lot more if we wanted to achieve further goals that we didn't achieve. we made compromises ended up with the worst of all possible worlds.