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 didnrCOt turn out that way, so whatrCOs Ford doing now?

ItrCOs rehiring many of the same workers they showed the door to so they
can come back and do the jobs that A.I. couldnrCOt 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 KTLArCOs 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 rCo at least at this point.

rCLArtificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but itrCOs only as good as
the information you use to train it,rCY Charles Poon, FordrCOs vice
president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters. rCLOver prior
years, we didnrCOt 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.rCY

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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