AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

Under a third of PoCs make it past testing, but those that do often boost productivity

It is the best of AI times; it is the worst of AI times, depending on whom you ask. Nearly a third of firms are seeing almost total failure of their AI proof-of-concept (PoC) projects, while 46 percent are successfully moving more than 10 percent of theirs into operational use....