AI and the Employment Process

As I understand it, a recruiter typically recieves a set of requirements for a position from the Hiring Manager and then proceeds to use such AI systems as ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot etc. to develop a job posting.

The candidates, in turn, use such AI tools as a Bot to scan job postings for a match.  The candidates then search those postings and use a Generative AI tool like ChatGPT to create matching resume and cover letters; which they submit as part of their applications.

Another AI tool scans the AI-generated resume and cover letter for matches, which may then be forwarded to a Voice-enabled Virtual Human AI agent, which places a phone call to the job applicant for more information.  The call is turned to text, analyzed by AI, and eventually seen by the (Human) recruiter.

I think the Marx Brothers did this in one of their movies.

Please see below.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/linkedin-thinks-it-has-the-solution-to-our-hiring-crisis/ar-AA1t8WZv?ocid=sapphireappshare&PC=EMMX101

State of Software Engineering Market

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-eng-market-2024

AI - System Two Thinking

https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-noam-brown-stuns-ted-ai-conference-20-seconds-of-thinking-worth-100000x-more-data/

Sabotaging AI - ByteDance intern fired for planting malicious code in AI models

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/bytedance-intern-fired-for-planting-malicious-code-in-ai-models/

AI Risk Repository

MIT’s AI risk repository offers a promising tool for categorizing and analyzing these threats. The repository serves as an invaluable resource. Aggregating hundreds of AI-associated threats across various environments and categorizing these risks based on their causes and natures—whether related to privacy, security, disinformation, or other concerns—enhances the probability of risk mitigation.

When AI Eats Itself

"When AI Eats Itself: On the Caveats of Data Pollution in the Era of Generative AI" explores the challenges of data pollution in generative AI. The paper can be found at arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09597

Generative AI, the American worker, and the future of work

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/generative-ai-the-american-worker-and-the-future-of-work/

Loss of Confidence in IT

This article very much jives with my own experiences and observations as a Senior Software Developer at GM IT during my years with General Motors.  What this article fails to mention, which I experienced at GM IT, is the Fear and Hierarchy that permeated that entire IT organization.

At GM, the loss of confidence by the Business leaders in IT manifested itself in the creation and staffing of an entirely new GM IT facility in Mountainview and the reduction of GM IT in other GM IT locations by 2300 persons in about a year.

Failure always has consequences.

https://www.cio.com/article/3550623/many-c-suite-execs-have-lost-confidence-in-it-including-cios.html?amp=1#origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&cap=swipe,education&webview=1&dialog=1&viewport=natural&visibilityState=prerender&prerenderSize=1&viewerUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Famp%2Fs%2Fwww-cio-com.cdn.ampproject.org%2Fc%2Fs%2Fwww.cio.com%2Farticle%2F3550623%2Fmany-c-suite-execs-have-lost-confidence-in-it-including-cios.html%3Fusqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID&amp_kit=1

Art Humor

https://www.aol.com/80-classical-art-paintings-inspired-010041840.html

AI & the Craft of Writing

https://time.com/7026050/chatgpt-quit-teaching-ai-essay/