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Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems (www.theverge.com)

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“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product,” said Charles Poon, VP of vehicle hardware engineering, in a briefing this week with reporters.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 85 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Seems like we’re entering the “find out” phase…

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If only...

Firing a large group of people and re-hiring a subset at reduced rates is a standard business practice used to keep wages down. This wasn't a mistake in policy, it was a clumsy execution.

[–] homes@piefed.world 11 points 5 days ago

Or perhaps a little bit of both: an inelegant way to handle a mistake.

[–] M137@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago

We definitely are in some ways, but I don't think this applies. Just the past month I've seen several articles about companies doing real work on scaling back AI use, which is good. But a bigger number are still fully invested and everyone who has any say about it have such an extreme AI psychosis that the companies, and possibly themselves, won't survive.