95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

Post by rconti » Fri, Aug 22, 2025, 4:17 PM UTC

Thrymr wrote: post #272

rconti wrote: post #116

I'm no AI apologist, but for one, this is how investments, particularly speculative investments, work. They're investing money now in the _hopes_ of a future return. It's pretty early days still. Secondly, of _course_ the huge AI players are doing everything they can to overpromise and convince corporations to throw cash at them to keep the party going. I think the real problem is, it's just a bit too early, but ever…

It is rare that a third of the capital in the US stock market (by some recent estimates) is going for essentially the same speculative bet, though.

Post by tafda » Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 4:17 AM UTC

doorhammer wrote: post #429

ponector wrote: post #417

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>> It's entirely possible that offloading that task to an LLM gives agents _more_ breathing room In theory, yes. But there is no way they are going to save millions by giving more breathing room to agents.

As a whole the incentives of capitalism are aligned as you suggest, but every major corp I've worked with has not-so-rare pockets of savvy middle managers that know how to play the game and also care about the welfare of their employees--even if the cultural incentives don't lean that way. (I'm assuming a US market here--and I'm at least tangentially aware that other cultures aren't identical) E.g., when I worked in…

Post by ta20240528 » Mon, Aug 25, 2025, 9:59 AM UTC

eldenring wrote: post #75

ta20240528 wrote: post #49

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> This is how America ends up being ahead of the rest of world with every new technology breakthrough. Too young to remember GSM?

I don't think its controversial to say that in net, the US has had a good streak so far with new technologies. Yeah there have been some pretty big misses, but obviously the wins more than make up for them.