Ford brings 'veteran' engineers out of retirement to show AI how it's done

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Ford has been forced to bring more than 300 ex-engineers out of retirement after AI systems failed to live up to expectations in quality control.The American car giant had grown increasingly dependent on AI for its engineering and manufacturing processes.The rehired specialists, known internally as "greybeards," have been hauled back to work to help boost vehicle reliability, Bloomberg reported.Ford admitted its automated quality checks had not delivered the results it wanted."Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it's only as good as the information you use to train it," Charles Poon, vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters.Mr Poon also confessed Ford had failed to properly consider the skills and experience of its most seasoned staff."Over prior years, we didn't pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles," he said."Mistakenly, we thought that by...

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