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MIT Shows 95% of AI Projects Fail -- Artificial Intelligence Might Be Stupid

2025-08-22 Science & Technology
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AI Hype vs. Real Automation Impact: Why Fundamentals Still Dominate Tech Value

Stop chasing the latest AI buzzwords and learn why robust, traditional automation strategies often deliver far greater, measurable business value today.

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  • Understand the high failure rate of current Generative AI pilot projects (95%).
  • Realize that effective automation, not just LLMs, drives major economic disruption.
  • Learn why understanding fundamental "questions" and engaging end-users is crucial for any tech deployment success.

Eli Atherton argues that the intense focus on Artificial Intelligence eclipses the more disruptive power of solid automation built on relational databases and well-designed workflows. This discussion analyzes recent MIT findings, historical tech bubbles (like Blockchain), and the critical importance of organizational adoption over raw technology stack prowess.

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Top Comments (10)

@HDCybersun 2025-08-24

This is anecdotal, but my company recently had a day of mandatory training on utilizing AI in our daily workflow, targeted at Software Engineers, and the dude giving the presentation is a manager who hasn't written code in decades. It's how I know we're in a true AI bubble now because our company is for software for utility companies (water/gas/electric), the kind of software that needs to work or people die, and we usually are the slowest to adopt the latest fad, for good reason. Anyhow, he vibe coded a simple rest application that did not work, had bugs, and wouldn't compile, and various functions were hallucinated. He was so enthusiastic at how quickly it spit out code riddled with technical debt. The power point slides were basically, use AI for everything, but also, if you use AI for everything it's your fault if something goes wrong. My takeaway was "we want our cake and we want to eat it too". Half the slides were "we aren't replacing you with AI", and the other half were "AI is the future and will gain us so much productivity" and also "if anything goes wrong it's your ass". These systems we write software for are critical to USA infrastructure and AI's hallucinate way too often for me to ever trust it to do anything. One bad line of code and people die, and yet they want to force AI which is known to hallucinate and get things wrongs into our daily workflows. This will not end well.

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@Chris-Brown- 2025-08-24

AI improves the separation of idiots from money

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@fro334bro 2025-08-22

This is the big thing I see. Most problems can be solved very effectively with a automation instead of some kind of sophisticated AI solution.

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@chevychavanne4433 2025-08-23

Ai is really successful at making you question the validity of everything you read and see

44 2 replies
@user-eg6nq7qt8c 2025-08-22

Hype is a hell of a drug

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@leststoner 2025-08-26

Scamming is the future. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks "how can I make someone else lots of money".

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@shortclipwriter 2025-08-22

LEARN AI SKILLS? That reminds me of TV ads back in the 1970s for companies telling us that the jobs of the future will be for Key Punch Operators, making lots of money punching IBM Cards.

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@Bathar_Al_Athad_2 2025-08-25

It’s not Artificial Intelligence.. it’s Automated Idiocy

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@rgoonewardene380 2025-08-28

😂 I started my degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in 2002. I thought I would be building terminators, but the first semester was contemplating “what is intelligence”.

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@piccalillipit9211 2025-08-23

*IF YOU BOOKED YOUR HOTEL WITH AI* you would find you were booked into a hotel in France in 5 years time and locked out of the hotel you wanted to stay in cos it had hallucinated

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