Ford CEO Jim Farley — the man who runs the car company — said this week that rehiring veteran engineers is saving the firm "literally hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars." The artificial intelligence systems Ford spent years investing in saved, by his telling, a different amount. That amount is zero.
I respect the honesty. Briefly. Then I remember he said it on Bloomberg instead of in a memo nobody would read, which is the corporate equivalent of telling your wife through a podcast.
The retired engineers know which bolt rattles. The AI knows 400 million pictures of bolts. One of these is useful before I'm dead. Guess which.
Ford's next move is reportedly more veterans. The AI will be reassigned to write press releases about the veterans.
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Based on the original article "Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short".
