5d ago

MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam. That Fortune article? The paper's authors are web3 crypto bros

MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam — from 100% crypto bros

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vgYq22Q5A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250821-mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam - podcast

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6d ago

MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam. That Fortune article? The paper's authors are web3 crypto bros

pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/21/mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam/

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This is the actual source of the article from Fortune: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
And the actual document created by the study: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf
I think this is some of the most damning evidence we have, other than actually just using AI.
Somewhat OT, I don’t quite get web3. The idea of decentralized sounds good, if we could get content back out of these select few walled gardens like fb and ig and such. But then they throw in all this blockchain and crypto bullshit.
- The point of web3 is to take a bunch of unrelated tech and brand it as "web3", even though it has nothing to do with the web, just to attach it to some very popular, well-known branding that isn't controlled by any single organization.
  It's free and misleading marketing by slimy and untrustworthy people.
- Lemmy is web3