Despite the Hype, A.I. Adoption Among Companies Is Going Down, Not Up

Turns out, it’s just not that useful.

By Braden Bjella

Published 2 months ago in Wow

Every day, the news is filled with stories about how artificial intelligence is going to disrupt the economy. If you have a job right now, A.I.-heads will say there’s only a matter of a few weeks before your role is replaced by a computer that can do it even better than you can. Better get your resume ready for another job — until the robots take that, too!


However, if we look at the actual data, it turns out that most companies just don’t find A.I. to be particularly useful. As noted by Apollo Academy, a recent study found that A.I. adoption rates are going down in companies of almost all sizes, with the main exception being companies with one to four people.


There’s no stated reason for this, but a few theories are swirling around. First, A.I.’s tendency to just make things up means that it often can’t be used for sensitive information — which, it turns out, is a lot of information. Second, figuring out A.I. tools involves a significant amount of training with a potentially limited payoff, meaning that companies might be hesitant to invest in the technology. Finally, the people promoting it are some of the most annoying, disgusting-looking people in the world, so that might be putting a sour taste in people’s mouths about the whole thing.


Whether these companies will eventually adopt A.I. in the future has yet to be seen, but for the time being, we’ll just stick with the technology that we know works.

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