An MIT report finds that 95% of GenAI pilots at companies have little to no financial impact, due to the “learning gap” for both the tools and the companies
Good morning. Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line.
Fortune Sheryl Estrada
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Discussion
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@radiodeadair.com
Nash
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This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about “AI” for the past few years actually wasn't, because that would mean the media, tech executives and most of Wall Street were wrong.
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@karlbode.com
Karl Bode
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the AI hype bubble is coming. And the news organizations and pundits that helped inflate it are going to immediately pivot to pretending they saw it coming the whole time.
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@angrydonkeynews
@angrydonkeynews
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The coming AI bust....its gonna be baaaddd... Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L — fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
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@boringstorybook.com
Brian Kirby
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The graphic here makes AI seem like some magical holographic Reed Richards/Tony Stark fantasy come to life but AI delivers results claiming that the Beatles have a song called Yeah Yeah Yeah and that Snoopy has a severe mental disorder when I do basic Google searches. 🤷♂️ …
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@spacelawshitpost.me
Łink
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Good thing billions of dollars are being lit on fire and poor neighborhoods are losing access to usable water for the great AI boom.
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@arvindpawan1
Arvind Ravikumar
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This is not surprising - a lot of companies rushing to integrate AI (specifically, LLMs) into their product without much thought to their real value. — As the report says, backend/routine tasks can be done by AI, but anything more complex or require adaptive learning is a long …
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@htsfhickey
Fred Hickey
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MIT reviewed over 300 public corporate AI implementations and interviewed 150 leaders. Found 95% of GenAI pilot projects at companies are failing
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@bcardarella
Brian Cardarella
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It's not a bubble. https://fortune.com/...
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@garymarcus
Gary Marcus
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oops. who could have seen this coming?!
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@atlas29shrugged
Hank Rearden
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Ties in with the initial feedback from @htsfhickey
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E aí, quanto tempo até a bolha estourar?
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One-Minute Daily AI News 8/18/2025
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What's poppin', my bubble?
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