Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business…
I assume this is a survey of management and C-suite types, too. Notoriously incompetent at actually managing production in any industry trying to adopt “AI”. These are the kind of people who ask ChatGPT to rewrite their emails and think this means “process efficiency”. And you just know that “customet experience” means they think they can get away with firing at least half their customer service staff (they can’t, but they think they can).
People perceive themselves as working faster with “ai” help, but in reality, they are slower.
Yeah, management types probably still think ai is the future and not just the latest speculative bubble
I once watched my former dept head spend 15 minutes coaxing ChatGPT into writing SQL statements to copy a couple tables. He was thrilled about it. I wanted a meteor to instantly kill the both of us.
I assume this is a survey of management and C-suite types, too. Notoriously incompetent at actually managing production in any industry trying to adopt “AI”. These are the kind of people who ask ChatGPT to rewrite their emails and think this means “process efficiency”. And you just know that “customet experience” means they think they can get away with firing at least half their customer service staff (they can’t, but they think they can).
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/
People perceive themselves as working faster with “ai” help, but in reality, they are slower. Yeah, management types probably still think ai is the future and not just the latest speculative bubble
I once watched my former dept head spend 15 minutes coaxing ChatGPT into writing SQL statements to copy a couple tables. He was thrilled about it. I wanted a meteor to instantly kill the both of us.