‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker

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.”

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.caEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      China is spending a fraction of the $88 billion Detroit was given…to build expensive trucks 30 years out of date.

      • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Note that they are doing so recklessly and have dug themselves into several large holes they’d rather we not see.

        In the area of renewable energy, they seem to be doing very well. They are wreaking environmental havoc all over the world to get the raw materials, though. Just check out some of their mines in Africa, for example.