Companies are making the exact same mistake with AI that they made with cloud.
FICO's CIO Mike Trkay breaks down why 95% of companies are failing at AI alignment, why "automating a bad process faster" is the #1 trap, and why regulated industries are already abandoning LLMs in favor of focused language models.
Key takeaways:
• Only 5% of AI pilots make it to production — and MIT's research backs it up
• The lift-and-shift parallel: cloud costs went up for the same reason AI ROI is missing
• Why the LLM-to-focused-language-model shift mirrors cloud-native vs lift-and-shift
• What "AI native" actually means (and why chatbots aren't it)
Chapters
00:00 The 5% Alignment Problem
01:09 Only 7% Even Measure If Their AI Works
02:15 "You're Just Doing a Bad Process Faster"
06:29 LLM Repatriation and the Rise of Focused Language Models