From Newsgroup: comp.ai.philosophy

In recent years, Ford has sacked hundreds of its engineers to make room
for artificial intelligence, which the automotive giant believed would
be able to do their jobs for less money.

It didn’t turn out that way, so what’s Ford doing now?

It’s rehiring many of the same workers they showed the door to so they
can come back and do the jobs that A.I. couldn’t do.

Many of the jobs in question involve quality control, which is making
sure Ford is getting the results it desires on the factory floor.

It turns out, A.I. lacked the capability to make such judgements. Why?
Because, as KTLA’s David Lazarus says, it has no gut instincts.

When it comes to quality control, being able to eyeball the parts and
process and have a gut instinct on how it will affect overall quality is
a distinctly human skill — at least at this point.

“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as
the information you use to train it,” Charles Poon, Ford’s vice
president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters. “Over prior
years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the
experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us
through many product cycles.”

Now Ford is bringing people back who can handle that, and quality has reportedly gone back up in the factories.

Unfortunately, part of the job of these rehired humans is to train A.I.
to be better at the jobs it was supposed to be better at.

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/ford-rehires-engineers-after-ai-backfir
es/

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The perfect opportunity to build AI into a company destroying
application. Oh wait, it already is. Never mind.
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