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“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product,” said Charles Poon, VP of vehicle hardware engineering, in a briefing this week with reporters.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 3 points 1 hour ago

“We’re moving from that find-and-fix mentality to preventing issues before they occur,” [...]

Funny that the introduction of AI in software development generally means a shift into the other direction. As John Ousterhout called it, "debugging a system into existence".

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

ROFL that was not a mistake. They all knew what would happen.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 35 minutes ago

yup, they just got caught doing it.

[–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Can't blame AI for the fact that I know of at least 2 Ford transit vans whose turbo blew within 6 months 5 years ago, and a ranger with oil leaks

The only thing keeping ford in business here in Australia (other than the mustang), are the yobbos who want to believe Chy-na is producing bad cars still.

They've been producing crap for decades

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 56 minutes ago

They set the gas line like 3" above the turbo exhaust on the first Gen escape

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can’t blame AI for the fact that I know of at least 2 Ford transit vans whose turbo blew within 6 months 5 years ago, and a ranger with oil leaks

I made an interesting observation - I see small oil leaks more frequently than when I made my driving license in 1988. In both cases, living in an European suburb. No idea why ... perhaps it is because people have more cars and drive less? Or changes in car design and construction?

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

The ranger with oil leaks I think was burning oil. It needed regular oil refilling until it was fixed.

My jeep is also hot garbage too

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Years ago I worked at an ISP tgat went through a merger. They decided they were going to outsource customer service to another company.

We all got nice severances and 3 months prior notice where we basically didn't work because all calls were being routed to the new call center and we were just backup. What a great 3 months. We had card tourneys, spun up the companies old game servers and ran minecraft (alpha) on them, lots of fun.

Get laid off, fast forward a year and the outsource company has taken an 86% approval ratimg down to the low 30s.

They hired a lot of us back to completely rebuild the service department. I was tier 1 and got a 76% raise. I imagine others got better.

[–] WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I bet the executives who made the decision gave themselves a bonus and are still working there despite the monumental blunder.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Executives fail upwards.

[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

People forget that AI models are great prediction systems, but as such the make very interesting blunders. If you are generating an essay, summarizing a meeting or just making cat memes that level of precision is acceptable. But I don't see AI replacing human in anything that requires exactitude, predictability or intuition.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 33 minutes ago

they arnt even that great at predicting, just better at summarizing info they gathered, but unable to verify if the sources are actually true or not.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

People don't forget. They simply don't care.

[–] portifornia@piefed.social 62 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

According to Poon, some of the company’s most experienced personnel left before all of their accumulated knowledge could be fully transferred into Ford’s automated systems. That necessitated bringing back some of those employees to retrain those systems...

See this, nothing was learned by these slop-shits. Their take away wasn't humans-with-experience > than slop-bots. It was, unfortunately, 'we didn't extract enough knowledge from the humans that helped build our company before tossing as many humans away as possible. Once we've extracted enough, we'll try again.'

Fuck you poon and co.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 32 minutes ago

even if they can "put all the knowledge" in the LLM, its unlikely the thing would even be able to use it effectively without the same engineers anyways.

[–] kevinsky@feddit.nl 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Funny how the capitalist narrative is that the CEO types "deserve" all they get because they worked hard and "built the company", but employee's that've been equally there for it's hardship and growth, actually with their hands in the mud, actually have all the practical knowledge, yet are only on an income, are tossed aside at the nearest convenience because somebody smelled a bit more money.

Some of them really can't be arsed to give back the community and systems that allowed them to flourish in the first place can they.

Locust swarm.

Sometimes I feel so blessed working for somebody that actually values people.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Let's hope the humans learned their lesson and won't teach the systems.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

The point the grandparent comment is making is that there is no amount of teaching that will turn an LLM into a top engineer. The technology just isn't there yet, not until OpenAI replaces all their own engineers.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And they're going to fire Charles Poon for fucking this up, right?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope they had to double their previous salaries...

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I had they hope to previous thier double saliear

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Durr regard made jokesers fucks it ip halwauthit

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The joke is NOT I fucked up correcting myself editing it about it, the joke is that I care so much that I make this meta comment. That's the level of joke we're on

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is this a part of your op too?

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Literally every i ds9s a government psyop

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

Thanks Obama

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 257 points 1 day ago (25 children)

So they fired the executives responsible, right?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 37 minutes ago

fire her for being caught for not OBFUSCATING THE lay offs as something else.

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[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and adjusting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product

That's so low IQ, like saying "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing a lawn mower and adjust the landscaping requirements, that that would produce a high quality lawn."

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly, it's incompetent managers making stupid decisions in the hope of looking good by reducing headcount. People see this and think aha, one more reason to hate AI, but blaming AI is like blaming a fork for not being a spoon.

[–] Hoticeberg@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

VP should be fired.

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