Flutterby™! : 95% of GenAI is failing (the other 5% has good optics)

Duh of the morning:

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

The Register: AI + ML — GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40 billion on fire

"The GenAI Divide is starkest in deployment rates, only 5 percent of custom enterprise AI tools reach production," the report says. "Chatbots succeed because they're easy to try and flexible, but fail in critical workflows due to lack of memory and customization."

I'm trying to find a PDF of the actual report, everyone seems to be republishing the same Fortune article, which I got to via Kevin Beaumont.

And while I'm clearing tabs, The Atlantic: AI is a mass delusion event (gift link courtesy of Felix Stalder) which observes that:

It seems that one of the many offerings of generative AI is a kind of psychosis-as-a-service.

Which pairs with my observation that GenAI interaction patterns have a lot in common with developmentally disabled adults. And in that, I've gone from suggesting that AI fans don't spend enough time interacting with developmentally disabled adults to recognize those patterns, to thinking that maybe the problem is that it's a peer group.

Edit: the NANADA report on the Wayback Machine, courtesy of Ed Zitron: How to argue with an AI booster.