Stories like these are becoming more frequent, and beginning to poke holes in the infallibility of AI.
Forrester’s survey of leaders found 55 percent of employers regret making tech-driven staff cuts — leading its analysts to predict that half of AI-attributed layoffs will be “quietly reversed.”
— Inc.
While AI may be inevitable in displacing large swaths of the labor market, whether it can reach that scale before this current AI market bubble pops is another question entirely.
“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that would produce a high-quality product,” said Charles Poon, Ford’s VP of vehicle hardware engineering.
— Quartz
The good news is this means more human jobs, the bad news is they probably won’t go to Americans anyways.