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.”
Automation cost + automation issues cost + rehiring cost premium. That must be costly.
Yes. Pass it on to consumers.
Fine by me. Cars suck and I won’t buy one. Not that I could afford to even if I wanted
Does it really matter when the taxpayer is there to bail them out?
Ford never took the bailout they took low interest loans. Not to defend ford but they’re a better managed company than almost all other US car manufacturers. When even the smartest car manufacturer is making these costly mistakes it paints a pretty bleak picture
Those low-interest loans are the bailout, friend. Six billion dollars.
Do you get low-interest loans with generous terms when you fail? I don’t. They should have been forced into bankruptcy like everybody else.
They don’t raise taxes anymore. That’s why everything is so expensive.
Sure they do, every year.
Everything is so expensive because of inflation, which is due to our friends at The Fed (which is a gang of private bankers that take turns screwing us). Don’t believe me? Look who works at the Fed
I mean in real terms, not absolute dollars. If they taxed away more than they printed, then the inflation would be tolerable.