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Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems (www.theverge.com)

submitted 19 hours ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 14 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Well he's being honest in admitting his mistake. In 20 years in the corporate world I've never seen an exec do that.

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago

There's no way that this is honest, no-one could possibly have been as stupid as he's pretending that they were.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Or a manager, or a middle-manager. Actually anyone that is not directly working on improving the product, that is 50% of the employees of any company.