Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain(theregister.com)

2 points by trevortheblack 1 year ago | 3 comments

smarm52 1 year ago |

> And to realize meaningful benefits, it's necessary to move past the pilot testing stage, something few companies have managed.

Huh, why not?

> Among the organizations surveyed, the best generative AI initiatives involved governance (standardizing models to ensure alignment, limiting access to generative AI tools based on role, and so on) and cost reduction, both general and administrative (Q&A testing, debugging, code suggestion, and HR help documentation).

Robust implementations work.

Maybe the sub-text here is that most early adopters didn't implement robust implementations, and failed out because of it.

politelemon 1 year ago |

Business leaders assume they need to be showing that they're using $latest_hype to stay relevant.

Experienced business leaders know they need to take a cautious approach and evaluate it well.

nonrandomstring 1 year ago | |

Agreed. Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but it's always the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Hype cycles seem to be getting shorter and more intense, and the honeymoon is an orgy of capital. The morning after, when the hangover clears and the drinks bill needs paying there's a thousand firms out there needing to "do something with AI whatever the cost". That breeds unnecessary and unethical technology, and it means forcing it on people through pseudo-markets. It's not just that AI is questionable as a technology, but that toxic money and motives around it make things worse.