Rehiring Spree Makes Ford Just the Latest Company to Rethink AI Automation
This week, the talk of the town has been Ford Motor Company's decision to begin hiring senior, or "graybeard," engineers after having laid off many in favor of AI automation.
The details are indeed delicious, with the company's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering stating openly that "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."
The issue seems to have been that human engineers were simply better at spotting flaws before they hit the plant floor, resulting in significantly lower costs for warranty fulfillment and even recalls. Ford CEO Jim Farley said that bringing back competent human engineers led to "literally hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars" in savings.
That would imply that AI had previously been costing"hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars" more; that's perhaps not surprising, given that Ford...
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