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.”
Brought to you by the same people who forgot they are a car company and stopped making cars.
They did? What else is Ford making?
Trucks. The only car Ford makes any more is the Mustang.
Are you including SUVs and vans in “trucks”?
The important bits:
The staff will lead quality reviews after the automation issues cost the company billions of dollars - while some workers will also help improve and train the AI systems.
“We brought back technical specialists and they hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.”
After rehiring experienced engineers, Ford experienced a marked improvement in its quality standards.
“Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles.
Basically saying that they massively underpaid and undervalued their staff, took and are still taking a hit that’s costing them BILLIONS and rehired the staff to train their ai so that they can do it again.
I hope the staff that were rehired asked and received a massive pay increase, inline with what it would be costing ford still, if they didn’t.
Billions? Fuck, they might need to get bailed out with taxpayers’ money!
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‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
No. You wanted to replace engineers who costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with a glorified chatbot because it cost less (for the introductory period only) and now you’re trying to save face because it blew up in your faces.
How do you know that the automation they’re talking about is LLMs?
Why are you defending technology that has shown time and time again to be a hinderance for the vast majority of uses?
Where did I defend anything?
Edit: probably a better question might have been “why would you think that the automation they’re talking about is LLMs”, since they don’t say it’s LLMs and it doesn’t make much sense for them to be talking about LLMs.
AI and automation cover a lot of stuff. Especially 3 years ago which this supposedly goes back to.
Thousands who will NOT be rehired because of your oopsie - People with families with completely disrupted lives, you visionless, incompetent fucks.