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This HN headline is editorialized, the Bloomberg headline is "Ford AI Hiccups Push Carmaker to Rehire ‘Gray Beard’ Inspectors". The editorialized headline is a

by simonw 4mo ago

This HN headline is editorialized, the Bloomberg headline is "Ford AI Hiccups Push Carmaker to Rehire ‘Gray Beard’ Inspectors". The editorialized headline is also misleading: "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors" - there is nothing in the original story that suggests Ford were expecting AI to "train juniors". And since the Bloomberg headline is behind a paywall the editorialized headline is most of what we have to go on. This Verge story would be a better link: "Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems" https://www.theverge.com/transportation/956316/ford-quality-jd-power-ranking-ai-automated-mistakes https://www.theverge.com/transportation/956316/ford-quality-... And the crucial detail: nothing indicates Ford laid off the 350 people who were re-hired. It looks to me like it could be bringing back people who retired.

justonepost2 4mo ago
Cope
- simonw 4mo ago
  What exactly am I coping with here? The headline gives the impression that Ford fired 350 engineers and tried to get AI to train the replacements and then re-hired them when that didn't work. That impression is false, which means we're wasting time having conversations about it. (The top comment thread on here right now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446#48675092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446#48675092 - starts with the assumption that Ford execs made the mistake of laying off 350 people and then discusses if they got good severance packages etc. - here's the best comment I've seen calling that out so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446#48675486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446#48675486)