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The Great AI Hype Correction of 2025: How the Industry's Biggest Promises Fell Short
MIT Technology Review's new eBook chronicles how 2025 became a year of reckoning for the artificial intelligence industry. From autonomous agents that could not complete basic tasks to enterprise deployments delivering zero business value, the gap between AI promises and reality has never been starker.
Key Takeaways
- 95% of enterprise AI deployments in 2025 delivered zero measurable business value according to MIT research
- AI autonomous agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic failed to complete basic workplace tasks independently
- Developers using AI coding assistants completed tasks 19% slower than those working without them
- Prominent researchers declared that large language models are not a pathway to artificial general intelligence
- Successful AI applications share one common trait: meaningful human oversight and integration into existing workflows
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