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Ford has rehired approximately 350 experienced engineers after the company’s investment in AI and automated quality control systems failed to meet expectations, according to Bloomberg. In short, the technology did not detect enough problems. “We mistakenly believed that we could create a high-quality product simply by introducing artificial intelligence and inputting our design requirements,” Charles Poon, head of Ford’s hardware development, told Bloomberg. The rehired quality inspectors — known internally as “gray beard” engineers for their experience and years with the company — are now working to identify defects before components reach the factories. Still, Ford is not abandoning AI completely; the experienced engineers will be asked to help train younger employees and improve the company’s AI tools.
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"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”
Apple’s threatened product pricing hike arrived Thursday with steep increases landing across all its products (except the iPhone) — and rapidly accelerating RAM prices are to blame. Apple CEO Tim Cook had warned last week about the need for price increases, with Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman subsequently telling us these were “imminent.” The increases have been imposed as a result of the massive demand for memory and storage components generated by the rapid investment in AI servers. Prices have increased to meet this demand, with vendors shifting manufacturing to the advanced memory modules demanded by AI companies. In doing so, they have not invested in additional production capacity, further exacerbating the demand/supply imbalance. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” Cook told The Wall Street Journal. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation ha
To celebrate its new status as No. 1 in JD Power's initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers, Ford is opening up about the challenges it has faced in recent years, especially around its reliance on automated systems in production and design. It turns out that those automated systems were not as robust as previously assumed, requiring Ford to hire experienced technicians - sometimes bringing back former employees - to correct errors made by the company's robots. In Ford's view, AI is both powerful and prone to pitfalls. Its effectiveness depends entirely on the quality of the data used to train the AI models. In addition, the auto … Read the full story at The Verge.
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