Post #145208
2026-01-20 16:42 UTC
Replies (36)
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@frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 2026-01-20 17:09
Shouldn't that be a net negative because of loss of knowledge and talent during ai-inspired layoffs?
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@FaceDeer@fedia.io 2026-01-20 18:30
Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases. So 38% saw benefits from AI, whereas "nearly" 26% saw cost increases from it. One could just as easily write the headline "More companies experience increased benefits from AI than experience increased costs" based on this data but that headline wouldn't get so many clicks.
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@stoly@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 16:54
All this article is showing is that a large number of CEOs are swayed by hype and make poor decisions. What other poor decisions are they making all the time? I am thoroughly convinced that the MBA is the most useless degree ever because when you look at how large businesses run so poorly, and are run by MBAs.
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@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 2026-01-20 16:47
Yeah, that tends to happen when you blow billions on snake oil.
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@Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-20 18:53
CEOs keep trying to shoehorn AI into replacing skilled labor positions, when the positions that AI could easily replace are obviously CEOs and the rest of the executive suite. Obviously they are so shit at their jobs that they can't research well enough to make informed decisions about tech implementation. Other than being a money vacuum, there isn't a single thing that CEOs do better than an LLM. Replace them, give their fat paychecks to the employees, and watch the company do better than it ever has. I hate AI, but it's still preferable to sociopath capitalists.
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@YellowFellow@piefed.social 2026-01-20 20:56
The article is sort of interesting and I hope people take a gander rather than headline skim to affirm a bias and internally bridge the narrative gap. The article says the report blames the lack of payoff on _lack of implementation_ rather than on AI tooling itself. That is, companies need to fully integrate with AI because piecemeal isn't working. Quite the opposite of what many people commenting here are assuming the takeaway was. That means even more bad times ahead for people who wake up every morning and make the world happen and society function. Assuming PwC's advice is taken to heart and job displacement remains the primary motivator rather than force multiplication.
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@TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 22:03
I tend to be skeptical of the reactionary AI is always slop trend. I'm sympathetic to it because it's a response to the hype machine that knows no prudence. But damn when you say > "Your next move: Build AI foundations. Our work with organisations confirms mounting evidence that isolated, tactical AI projects often don’t deliver measurable value. Tangible returns come from enterprise-scale deployment consistent with company business strategy." I read this as marketing. What's the evidence you've been gathering? Why do you believe your projects are applicable to all companies? What happens if we invest and it doesn't help like you say it will? This is like saying the solution to your relationship troubles is having a baby. No... No this is not the solution. Make my smaller projects work and show return and then we talk larger commitments.
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@Akasazh@feddit.nl 2026-01-21 11:33
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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 17:06
Sure, the *majority* aren't seeing a payoff. But we only really care about the Magnificent Seven and their increased revenue from government contracts (particularly Pentagon weapons platforms and public-private surveillance deals).
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@SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-21 08:35
So what has effectively happened? Just... Ruined a bunch of stuff and destabilized a bunch of society and lined the pockets of a few companies?
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@anzo@programming.dev 2026-01-21 20:54
Let's use AI to replace the missing CEOs when we compost billionaires!!!
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@vin@lemmynsfw.com 2026-01-21 01:00
~40℅ seeing a positive payoff is surprisingly high
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@darkmogool@feddit.org 2026-01-21 06:02
good…
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@Doomsider@lemmy.world 2026-01-22 04:38
If I were to take a significant amount of the budget and totally lose my ass I would get fired. These people have no consequences. Meritocracy my ass.
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@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2026-01-21 05:29
Just keep sucking up power and hardware.
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@verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2026-01-20 17:08
Good to know they are worth the 300x average compensation of a normal worker, this is yet another piece of evidence we should aim for 600x instead of guillotines.
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@flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 18:45
Yet again those at the top waste untold sums of money and resources on the new shiny and everyone else is left to deal with the mess they created. While they float away on their golden parachute.
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@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2026-01-21 00:12
"Were not beating the AI hard enough! Apply the lash!"
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@VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-20 17:39
If a gif could represent an entire article...  Don't give up. Keep it growing!
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@ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 17:41
Save money and skip AI
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@SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2026-01-20 17:50
To all those CEOs all I can say is [Cry about it, stay mad, L, mald, seethe, cope, LMAO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5CjmHLUQQI)
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@m3t00@lemmy.world 2026-01-22 05:01
so more layoffs until they break even on the new power bill
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@Krompus@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 19:00
lol get rekt
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@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 19:10
But they will keep pumping money into it, laying off workers over it, and alienating consumers with it all the same. The global economy is an AI-based Ponzi scheme.
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@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2026-01-22 02:53
Great, can we unleash the bonkers insane computing power for something useful like simulating matter to understand aging?
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@JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-20 20:40
Good. Fuck 'em.
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@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-20 23:30
What even is Enterprise Wide Deployment?
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@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2026-01-20 22:11
As if we weren't going to figure out how shitty LLM's are organically.
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@Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2026-01-20 20:26
You mean they couldn't just stop paying their workers? I thought AI was supposed to replace all that FTE overhead that gets in the way of shareholder profits!!!!!111111oneoneoneoenone Business morons who don't understand tech is what this bubble is all about. I can't believe so many businesses have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into technology that fundamentally cannot do what they fantasize it to do.
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@Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2026-01-20 21:14
This is just like them trying to solve traffic problems Just one more AI bro! Just one more integration and it'll finally be good.
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@1984@lemmy.today 2026-01-20 21:38
Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai... Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup.... I dont believe in any of that. I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that.... I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.
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@EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works 2026-01-20 21:58
I just got a work complaint from an angry client about my rep’s performance. Well over 50 emails over 4 weeks, it was a lot to review. I had ChatGPT give me a summary of the client complaint and it highlighted just where my side started to fall apart. I hate the slop, but this time it helped
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@frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2026-01-21 05:31
Unfortunately, that's their only job, to make the number go up.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-01-21 05:12
they want to inflate long enough to get a bonus on thier golden parachute then bounce.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-01-21 08:31
in order prolong the illusion longer they layoff constantly to, record profits.
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@4grams@awful.systems 2026-01-21 13:24
Exactly, the vision was flawless, it will all be blamed on the execution. The people who failed to build it will be held accountable though; departments of them… Fucking awesome system we have here.