Lakhani: AI dropped BCG consultants' performance on tasks the technology struggles with
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Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani discusses findings from an empirical study testing generative AI on analytical and problem-solving tasks at Boston Consulting Group.
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“At the same time, we discovered for the task that the AI was not good at, performance dropped. Those using AI did worse than those not using AI.”
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