Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short | TechCrunch
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"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level.

  • lando55@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    I don’t know if this one can be chalked up to straight stupidity. It’s only ever about quarterly earnings.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 days ago

      These execs are mostly Boomers who have no idea how AI works. They saw it as a party trick and were amazed, then assholes like Bill Gates are telling them AI will wipe our asses in three years. They had FOMO, like when they ran into the EV space to make those Tesla profit margins. Who cares, they rotate out in 5 years rich either way.

    • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Yeah, so that’s two dumb things now: One, believing the hype that AI can fully replace a human worker, and two, that it will be cheaper (tokenmaxxing go brr).