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Stumbled on a stat that 73% of AI projects never make it past the pilot phase
I was reading a report from Gartner last night about enterprise AI rollouts and that number just hit me hard. We spent 8 months building a customer service chatbot at my last job and it got scrapped right before launch because management decided it was too risky. How are so many teams putting in all that work for nothing? Has anyone else here seen a project that was technically ready just die because of company politics?
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ben_ross5128d ago
That stat lines up with what I've seen too. My buddy worked at a logistics company where they built a whole AI routing system that was humming along in testing, reducing delivery times by like 15 percent. Then the head of operations got into a fight with the CTO over budget for it, and the whole thing just sat on a shelf collecting dust for six months before they officially shelved it. Your mileage may vary, but in my experience, the tech is usually the easy part compared to getting everyone in the room on the same page. It's like building a car that runs perfectly but nobody can agree on who gets to drive it.
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gavinlopez1mo ago
Wait, 8 months of work and it got killed right before launch? That's brutal, that had to feel like a complete waste of everyone's time. I've seen projects twist in the wind for months after they were done because some VP got cold feet, it's insane how much momentum can just vanish.
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