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The article highlights critical deployment barriers for AI in industrial settings, specifically the accuracy gap between frontier models and the near-perfect reliability required for mission-critical infrastructure. It further addresses economic constraints where running top-tier models becomes cost-prohibitive compared to human labor, necessitating a shift toward semi-autonomous systems with human oversight. These factors define the current realistic trajectory of AI adoption in physical environments rather than suggesting imminent full autonomy.
‘Sometimes it’s more expensive than having humans’: Ecolab gets real about AI’s limits in the physical world

Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu said customers “really demand 99.9999%” accuracy, while frontier models “could be at 85%.”
Putting the latest AI models into buildings, factories and kitchens is much harder than putting them into a chatbot. That was the message from executives at Honeywell and Ecolab, though they were fairly positive about AI overall. Honeywell Technologies Chief Technology Officer Suresh Venkatarayalu said at Fortune’s AIQ Summit at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday that the problem is accuracy. The industrial…
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