11mo ago

Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19178497

RAND Report - The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed

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11mo ago

Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report

www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/research-shows-more-than-80-of-ai-projects-fail-wasting-billions-of-dollars-in-capital-and-resources-report

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Tech projects failing is normal, what's more telling is comparing them to non-AI tech projects.
But according to research by the RAND Corporation, over 80% of these AI projects will fail — which is twice the failure rate for non-AI technology-related startups.
Remember kids, the "failure" is economic failure, not moral, not utility.
Chatgpt is a "success". If the company is stealing your face, art, voice but it is making money, they list it as a success.
By that metric, FTX was a "success" until their fraud was revealed.
80% fail economically, how many of those 20% fail morally? How many of those 20% have real utility? (E.g. not only generating weird picture of poor children building Mickey mouse out of bottles)
- You don't need to tabulate the moral failure. That's 100%.
Billions in capital should be billions in taxes.
the internet can do really good things but for every Amazon we also had pets.com in the 00s burst i think we are speedruning the bubble with AI. I can't wait till it pops so we can move on to something useful and stop wasting power.
I think we are in the beginning phases of ai. It has already changed how we do many things, but we are still looking how to use the tech, how to integrate it, how to make products. All while the tech is rapidly evolving.
This looks like a crypto bubble.
- 20% success rate, that's pretty high to say it would ever go away. 80% of restaurants close in the first five years, that bubble hasn't popped.
  
  But it has historically over the past 50 years been dominated by franchised chains. Which is to say.....terrible.
- and yet crypto recieves speculative investment to this day. Say what you will about AI, at least the end product can sometimes do something.
- Literally addressed in the first paragraph. They say 80% it’s twice the normal failure rate
Remember that AI is an extension of human understanding, knowledge and interpretation. Not a replaceable tool
- AI has existed for less than a decade. We are fine without AI. You can't just look at something still being built, with loads of problems, and call it irreplaceable. Nobody depends on AI for their survival, they depend on water, clean air, and other resources that AI is taking away. It's also taking people's jobs that, again, they need for their survival.
  Stop emulating Elon Musk and get some sleep.
  
  Uhhh, AI has been around for DECADES. You are likely conflating AI as a whole with "generative AI" which has been experiencing a boom the last 5+ years. Some examples of AI include pathfinding (think of your GPS telling you how to get somewhere), chess engines (also a form of pathfinding, incidentally), and NPCs in video games making decisions based on a set of rules and states.

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