Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires.

[mattgriffin@masto.ai]

@evacide a real quote! he said it out loud! jfc

[feisty_lemming@zeroes.ca]

@evacide “The company said it would not abandon its use of AI, but plans to now use it in conjunction with human oversight and experience.”

[jswright61@ruby.social]

@evacide I am of an age. I can’t read a story like this without thinking about Mr. Mom.

[christianrickert@23.social]

@evacide

When something is ingested, it almost never resurfaces as a "high-quality product".

[jamesmarshall@sfba.social]

@evacide they thought that because the snake-oil salesmen told them so. At least they're figuring it out now.

[enema_cowboy@dotnet.social]

@christianrickert
Who does Ford think they are? Civet cats?
@evacide

[lykso@tiny.tilde.website]

@evacide The goose was not valued.

[christianrickert@23.social]

@Enema_Cowboy @evacide

Exactly! 🫘

[brad@1040ste.net]

@evacide Wankers. That's Ford though - Found On Rubbish Dumps. They've always been shit.

[aceade@mastodon.ie]

@evacide <nelson>HA HA! </nelson>

[bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org]

@evacide

This is a very useful article to have & is helpful in my current LLM-gen-AI work. Thank you very much for sharing it, as I'd surely have missed it otherwise.

Meta: it seems to me “greybeard” is an inappropriately gendered term. I don't see that term used in the article you linked to, and I note you put it in quotes, maybe to acknowledge that, but couldn't another term be used that doesn't refer to something usually identified gender attributes.

Veteran might be a good term here.

[dio9sys@haunted.computer]

@evacide
It's almost like all of us across different companies have been telling the executive class that that doesn't work this whole time!

[evacide@hachyderm.io]

@bkuhn It's right there in the second paragraph:

The US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers, referred to internally as “gray beards”, over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automated systems.

[emmohamed123456@mastodon.social]

@evacide You have many followers, please help me share my pinned post. I need to buy the medication.

[lufthans@mastodon.social]

@evacide I read that as Ford spent 3 years moving to AI quality control in effort to return to the craptastic qualify of the 1970s US automotive industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Qj58o87sY

[happyborg@fosstodon.org]

@evacide and why did Ford believe that?
- wishful thinking + no regard for their employees + lies from those selling #GenAI

#LLM

[agnesbc@social.vivaldi.net]

@evacide Sadly they are rehiring only the senior engineers because they are betting after just a couple more years and just a bit more training, they won't need any engineers. They don't need to invest in the next generation of "grey beards".

[jzb@hachyderm.io]

@evacide I hope they had to pay a premium to lure them back...

[enema_cowboy@dotnet.social]

@jamesmarshall @evacide

Isn't one the reason why executive "merit" the big bucks is that they aren't so easily fooled by snake-oil peddlers?

"Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie, another to listen."
-Homer Simpson

[failedlyndonlarouchite@mas.to]

@lufthans @evacide

you all might ask, what is the lesson here ?

Is it that AI is bad ?
no

The lesson is that very highly compensated senior managers at major companies often make really stupid decisions