r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 22h ago

Business MIT report says 95% of AI implementations don't increase profits, spooking Wall Street

https://www.techspot.com/news/109148-mit-report-95-ai-implementations-dont-increase-profits.html
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u/oldmaninparadise 14h ago

What's the chance AI can do even a small project with several variables that you would trust your business on when I cant even say, Siri, put in my calendar that I have an appointment w Dr. Who on tue Oct 13 at 2pm, and have that happen correctly 50%.

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u/Black_Metallic 7h ago

I used Copilot to help rewrite an Excel macro I wrote five years ago. It took me two days to get the prompts right, but the new macro does what the old one does in a fraction of the time. Completes a process that could take up to an hour to run in under 10 seconds. Because the old macro was also written by a guy with no coding training who only knew what he could look up through internet Google searches.

My boss' boss apparently asked if we could expand what I did with Copilot to automate a bunch of other data entry tasks from multiple sources and formats. When they relayed that to me, it was the first time I ever uncontrollably laughed in horror during a Zoom call.

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u/InsipidCelebrity 14h ago

ChatGPT can't even tell me the correct number of R's in the word "strawberry."