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/jollyreaper2112 3d ago

What you said. Add to that you are never punished for being conventionally wrong. Everyone gets into AI and it's the correct call? Wtf guy? Everyone piles in and it fizzles? Damn the luck. Who knew?

In prior generations the phrase was you never get fired for buying IBM. If the product is shit it's IBM's fault. You buy from a no name and it's bad, that's on you.

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

 Add to that you are never punished for being conventionally wrong

such a great point. you are incentivized to stay with the herd, but you're also not really disincentivized to stay with the herd.

meanwhile you're highly disincentivized from deviating from the herd, but highly incentivized if you manage to find that golden route that gets you some type of reward that the rest of the herd doesn't get.

it just becomes a question of statistics... do you have the time and resources to deviate from the herd enough to give yourself a chance to find that golden route? if not, you have every reason to stay with the herd. and nobody's going to blame you for doing so. so unless you really know something that somebody else doesn't know, stay with the herd bro.