OpenAI COO Says AI Hasn’t Penetrated Enterprise Yet – And This Is News?
So OpenAI’s very own Chief Operations Twat, Brad Lightcap, gets up in front of a bunch of stuffed shirts at a conference and announces—with a straight fucking face, no less—that “we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes.” Well, no shit, Sherlock. Next you’ll tell me water is wet and users are still forgetting their goddamn passwords.
This clown is peddling ChatGPT Enterprise for $60 a head while simultaneously admitting his own product is about as deeply integrated into corporate America as a screen saver. Companies are using it to write polite emails and generate bullshit PowerPoint decks, but actually restructuring their workflow? Actually replacing the army of middle-management parasites? Fuck no. That would require clue, which is in critically short supply.
The article prattles on about how AI agents are the “next wave” and how enterprises are just “experimenting.” Experimenting! That’s corporate-speak for “we bought 500 licenses, nobody knows what the fuck to do with them, and now we’re waiting for the CFO to notice the invoice and have an aneurysm.” I’ve seen more penetration from a blunt toothpick.
Lightcap’s talking about AI that can “reason across a day” like it’s some revolutionary concept. Meanwhile, Karen from Accounting can’t even get ChatGPT to stop hallucinating fake VAT numbers and the IT department is spending half its time explaining to the C-suite why they can’t just “AI away” the compliance audit. The gap between the marketing wank and the reality is wide enough to drive a fucking datacenter through.
These geniuses built a tool that can pass the bar exam but can’t figure out why enterprise adoption is slower than a 9600 baud modem on a wet string. Here’s a clue, Brad: enterprises are built on layers of legacy shit, political fiefdoms, and people whose primary skill is covering their own arse. Your fancy chatbot doesn’t fix that—it just gives them another way to generate self-justifying reports at scale.
Related Anecdote: Last week, some VP of Digital Wankery demanded I “integrate AI into our core business processes” by Friday. When I asked what processes, specifically, he waved his hand like he was shooing away a fart and said, “You know, all of them. Make it intelligent.” So I set up a cron job that emails him a daily PDF of his own calendar with the subject line “AI-Generated Strategic Insights” and told him it cost $50K in GPU time. The twat’s been forwarding it to the board for a week now, calling it our “digital transformation dashboard.” Sometimes the magic isn’t in the AI—it’s in the artificial confidence of the idiots using it.
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