AI is supposed to revolutionize workforce productivity, but so far that hasn’t been the case.
One study from MIT found that a damning 95 percent of companies that gambled on integrating the tech saw no meaningful growth in revenue. Another study exploring one of its most hyped up applications, AI coding assistants, showed that programmers actually became slower when they depended on the AI tools. Meanwhile, a slew of reports tell an increasingly familiar tale of companies firing their workers to replace them with AI, only to scramble to rehire humans once they realize the tech isn’t all it was made out to be.
But why exactly is AI falling short in the workplace? In theory, shouldn’t a tool that can generate essays on the fly, spit out code, hold down a conversation on any topic, and take