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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly (www.the-independent.com)

submitted 1 day ago by FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Brought to you by the same people who forgot they are a car company and stopped making cars.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Ford made the model TT in 1924, that’s after selling an assemble yourself truck. The F series was introduced in 1948 and the F-150 is the most popular truck globally by a lot. They’re very literally the first to ever mass produce trucks… so idk what your comment is trying to say. Ford has made trucks as long as it’s made cars and is arguably one of the only vehicle manufacturers that can claim to be a company that makes trucks as their original products over 100 years ago.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They did? What else is Ford making?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trucks. The only car Ford makes any more is the Mustang.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you including SUVs and vans in "trucks"?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, as the Federal Government does as well when it comes to emissions laws

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Which brings us to why Ford doesn't want to do cars, because the standards give them a break if it is a "truck".