Enterprises don’t need artificial general intelligence. They need artificial specific intelligence

MIT’s finding that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to show measurable profit has been quoted at length, and the conclusions drawn from it are always the same: the models aren’t good enough yet, or enterprises don’t know how to use them. I don’t think either holds up. The problem starts earlier, with whose definition of success you’re measuring against, and I’ll come back to what to do about that. I looked at this in my book Transform!. Bain surveyed over a thousand companies and found that only 5% of digital transformations achieved or exceeded expectations. 75% settled for dilution of value