Despite a €391 billion global market value for AI, 42% of companies have abandoned their AI initiatives due to fundamental flaws like 33-48% hallucination rates and an inability to reason, yet the most successful organisations are thriving by accepting these limitations rather than fighting them. Drawing on MIT research, industry case studies, and emerging neurosymbolic approaches, this article reveals how AI succeeds not as autonomous magic but as a collaboration tool requiring sophisticated human partnership. The winners aren't waiting for perfect AI; they're building systems that work with AI's actual capabilities today, treating it like electricity in the 1890s, a powerful technology that needs decades of complementary innovation before transforming productivity.
[...] This also brings me to talk about an article in the financial times that seems to argue in favour of letting the companies do the bidding and selling of there services as usual. But I can’t stop thinking that there is an analogy between this and the way that France created a system that regulates telecom companies and strives to stop abuse from companies that have real power over others, resulting in innovative services and prices for the consumers. [...]