It wasn't the future after all: Ford is rehiring hundreds of quality-control engineers after its AI inspection push fell short
https://www.vozpopuli.com/indux/en/it-wasnt-the-future-after-all-ford-is-rehiring-hundreds-of-quality-control-engineers-after-its-ai-inspection-push-fell-short/8063/
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gibmiser@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 33d
Union better bend them over a barrel because they will just try again
RandomStranger@piefed.social · 36 pts · 33d
It's very telling about the "quality" of American industry. They wouldn't even run a pilot to figure out if the new tools work before they fire the staff? What kind of morons run these companies?
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 33d
Not morons, sociopaths.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 33d
The executives who push for quarter to quarter earnings targets over any other metric. (For the bonus from shareholders)
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 33d
The kind of people who understoood the point of AI and automation was never about it working but rather about convincing society to devalue their workers, and that has worked perfectly.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 32d
They think "move fast and break things" is an intelligent mantra. An aspirational goal.
In other words, they are stupid assholes.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 24 pts · 33d
I don't want to live on a planet where my existence slowly devolves into endlessly telling everyone "I told you so."
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 17 pts · 33d
I’m certain that everyone who isn’t invested in the AI industry told them this was a terrible idea. AI companies have worked extremely hard to oversell their capabilities, and large corporations are always frothing at the mouth to eliminate as many jobs as possible.
Labor is expensive. Expert labor: triply so. If there’s even a promise of a chance that corporations can eliminate the necessary expense of labor, they will take it.
aramis87@fedia.io · 6 pts · 33d
While I agree with you, I don't understand why all the companies seem to have switched to AI and fired their experts at the same time. If I was in charge of a company planning that massive a switch to a complete unknown, I'd run two systems in parallel to verify the results before getting rid of all my experts.
taj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d
Because AI is expensive too. Can't afford to pay both.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net · 1 pts · 32d
It’s all FOMO. There’s a big narrative in the executive world that you either fully embrace AI or get left behind and wither. AI companies have spent most of the trillions of bubble money marketing this narrative.
If you truly believe it’s as powerful and transformative as it’s been sold as, then this mentality makes sense.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 33d
That was me in 2010... To right now.
One day I'll get over it.
outerspace@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 33d
Just a reminder that the previous article said that they are rehiring them not because humans are better at the job but because they rushed to fire them too fast, without using those people to train the computers first.
Rothe@piefed.social · 9 pts · 33d
They will soon learn that AI is actually more expensive to use than humans, when the AI companies are forced to raise prices in a frantic attempt to cover the actual costs of using and building datacenters.
outerspace@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 33d
Right, but not before they try to fire people again, fafo cycle continues!
For this specific case they want to train local smaller models I think, like we didn't have that before the llm boom
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 33d
This is just the narrative they use to rationalize treating their workers worse, it need not and does not have any connection to reality.
Visstix@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 33d
Yeah let's fire people before we know if the new system even works. That's a great fucking plan.
Of course the people making these decisions never get fucking fired, and are in fact the ones that could easily be replaced by ai. In fact skip the "i" part.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
So enamored with the idea of replacing pesky humanses--forming unions, demanding time off, complaining about working conditions, getting hurt--they jumped in feet-first without testing it.
Idiots.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 33d
Hateful idiots who demand to try their plan to dehumanize people they have power over and then only reluctantly recognize their humanity condescendingly and temporarily when it fails.
quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 33d
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 33d
Their overpriced, bloated vehicles will now cost even more. Far from "leading edge", more like throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 33d
Good thing for them they'll just get bailed out.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 33d
They don't call it Fix Or Repair Daily for nothing
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 32d
Fuck, our ride died!
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 33d
Might as well call American Workers Found On Road Dead too.
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 32d
Fucker only runs downhill.
Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 32d
Found on rez dump