supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-216 days agoIt wasn't the future after all: Ford is rehiring hundreds of quality-control engineers after its AI inspection push fell shortwww.vozpopuli.comexternal-linkmessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1294arrow-down11
arrow-up1293arrow-down1external-linkIt wasn't the future after all: Ford is rehiring hundreds of quality-control engineers after its AI inspection push fell shortwww.vozpopuli.comsupersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-216 days agomessage-square27linkfedilink
minus-squareRothe@piefed.socialcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·16 days agoThey will soon learn that AI is actually more expensive to use than humans, when the AI companies are forced to raise prices in a frantic attempt to cover the actual costs of using and building datacenters.
minus-squareouterspace@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·16 days agoRight, but not before they try to fire people again, fafo cycle continues! For this specific case they want to train local smaller models I think, like we didn’t have that before the llm boom
minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 days agoThis is just the narrative they use to rationalize treating their workers worse, it need not and does not have any connection to reality.
They will soon learn that AI is actually more expensive to use than humans, when the AI companies are forced to raise prices in a frantic attempt to cover the actual costs of using and building datacenters.
Right, but not before they try to fire people again, fafo cycle continues!
For this specific case they want to train local smaller models I think, like we didn’t have that before the llm boom
This is just the narrative they use to rationalize treating their workers worse, it need not and does not have any connection to reality.