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Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge (www.theregister.com)
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[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

~40℅ seeing a positive payoff is surprisingly high

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 19 hours ago

40% fired a bunch of stuff who are either working harder or were actually able to leverage llm for some of their work.

AI didn't have to do a good job, it just gave them an excuse to slash people

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are they seeing a payoff or just not admitting defeat (yet)?

[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Most CEOs say their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI. Although close to a third (30%) report increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months and a quarter (26%) are seeing lower costs, more than half (56%) say they’ve realised neither revenue nor cost benefits.

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

I'd love to know more about that 30% reported increase and how real it is (I know this is never going to happen). Is it a) Nvidia<=>OpenAI b2b stuff where they increased revenue by grifting some other CEO b) massaging the numbers to make it look like AI is popular - Microsoft Office+Copilot style or c) there is genuinely something valuable that people are buying

I feel like there is a whole lot of b) going on with companies baking AI into popular products and then going "ooh line gonup, must be AI" but I could be wrong.