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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (www.the-independent.com)
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Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired.

The US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers, referred to internally as “gray beards”, over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automated systems.

The staff will lead quality reviews after the automation issues cost the company billions of dollars, Bloomberg reported, while some workers will also help improve and train the AI systems.

“We had been relying more and more on automated quality systems and not getting the desired results,” said Kumar Galhotra, Ford’s chief operating officer.

“We brought back technical specialists and they hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.”

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Lots of bad headlines for Ford this year. This one comes after they admitted publicly that if Chinese cars were allowed in American markets they wouldn't be able to compete. (Compete in this context really means: "Couldn't price gouge".)

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Actually, it is in the total context. Battery tech, style, price, durability of Chinese electric vehicles blow away anything we have.

The chinese government is blowing huge wads of cash supercharging their strategic technologies. Without some coordinated approach over here, there is no way to compete with that.

Republicans have been whittling away at tech and basic science investments since the "contract ~~with~~ on America". This is what happenas as a result.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

China is spending a fraction of the $88 billion Detroit was given...to build expensive trucks 30 years out of date.

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