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.
[...] It seems to me that this is, yet again, an example of the same reaction that the music industry had to MP3 or from a wider perspective to digital music. I already discussed how the will to restrict users so much on what they could do with music and what format it could be in was a really bad move from the music industry. Rather than looking at innovating ways to provide different distribution solutions they spent it on taking people to court which didn't get them much sympathy either. A bit of a Public Relations disaster… [...]
[...] Hey the proprietary formats are ridiculous anyway. [...]