Die Graubärtigen sind wieder im Kommen

Läuft wohl nicht so gut mit der KI.

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level.

Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been “relying more and more on automated quality systems” with disappointing results. So the company “brought back technical specialists,” and those specialists “hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.”

Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, “Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”

To be clear, this doesn’t mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it’s using the rehired employees — referred to as “gray beard” engineers — to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools.

Ach, schick.

Erst schmeißt man viel Geld und viele Angestellte raus, um alles auf KI umzustellen.

Dann merkt man, dass das mit der KI doch nicht so taugt und die Qualität nicht stimmt.

Und jetzt holt man sich alte Fachleute, um die Jungen zu schulen und die KI in Ordnung zu bringen.

Was dann natürlich auch den Vorteil hat, dass man die nicht für ewig an der Backe hat, sondern die von Alters wegen sowieso bald wieder gehen.