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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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[–] 3 points 2 months ago*

Ford comes straight out of Nazi philosophy, Henry Ford was part of the American Nazi Party, and a huge part of that mentality is “don’t compete, destroy” the concept of doing better and earning that top spot is a foreign concept. It’s a brute force approach to manufacturing which is why they took this moronic AI route

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