{"id":14242,"date":"2026-08-31T04:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:29:26","slug":"a-brief-history-of-why-machine-learning-projects-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/a-brief-history-of-why-machine-learning-projects-stall\/14242\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Why Machine Learning Projects Stall"},"content":{"rendered":"EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This is the preface to The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment. The paperback edition of this book will drop on October 27, 2026, along with a new, second preface, &#8220;Predictive AI Thrives, Despite Generative AI Stealing the Spotlight.&#8221; Special offer: Pre-order the paperback now and receive free, immediate access to the audiobook. A note on terminology: Although predictive AI has recently become the more common term, in this article \u2013 and in the book for which it serves as a preface \u2013 I refer to it as machine learning (ML). So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/a-brief-history-of-why-machine-learning-projects-stall\/14242\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This is the preface to The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment. The paperback edition of this book will drop on October 27, 2026, along with a new, second preface, &#8220;Predictive AI Thrives, Despite Generative AI Stealing the Spotlight.&#8221; Special offer: Pre-order the paperback now and receive free, immediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14242"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14251,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions\/14251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}