Why Most AI Demos Are Useless - And What Production AI Actually Looks Like By Nidhish Akolkar

There is a specific kind of AI demo that has become almost a cliche. A founder or researcher stands on a stage or records a screen capture and shows an AI doing something impressive. It answers a complex question perfectly. It writes flawless code on the first try. It completes a multi-step task without a single failure. The audience applauds. Twitter shares it ten thousand times. And then developers try to build something real with the same technology and discover that nothing works the way the