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Sculptures: Ancient & Recent

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/

AI and Philosophy

We face many problems and issues for which we would like to have answers or even partial answers.

We also available to us the works of all Thinkers and Philosophers of Europe and Western Asia written over the last 2500 years.

I think it will bea good idea to develop (train) Large Language Models for Plato, Aristotle, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rusd, Saint Thomas of Aqinas, and others.  In this manner, we could pose questions to them, in a metaphoric way, and get their answers.  Needless to say, such LLMs need to include our contemporary context as well, the Revolutionary changes that Empirical Sciences have caused in our understandings of the world as well as archaeological and historical knowledge that has been gained over the last 200 years.

Furthermore, such an approach may be extended to the very large corpus of religious commentaries and expositions of extant religions; in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hindu Spiritual Doctrines, and Buddhism.

Ideally, one could pose moral, metaphysical, epistemological, ontological questions to these LLMs and see what they come up with.  They are meant as hypothesis generators and discussion starters and not a substitute for Thinkers and Philosophers.

News of IBM (and AI)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/24/ibm_layoffs_ai_talent/

We read ""Senior software engineers stopped being developed in the US around 2012... No country on Earth is producing new coders faster than old ones retire. India and Brazil were the last countries and both stopped growing new devs circa 2023. China stopped growing new devs in 2020."

Yet no employers have been begging me to join their organization!

I must be missing something crucial.

AI for Lonely People: Loving fake friends

Loving fake friends (axios.com) 

What is Design Thinking?

What is Design Thinking? — updated 2024 | IxDF (interaction-design.org)

What is ‘design thinking’? And why does it belong in classrooms?

Learning Content Design and Development Solutions | GP Strategies

and the book by Adam Grant: 

Amazon.com: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Audible Audio Edition): Adam Grant, Adam Grant, Penguin Audio: Audible Books & Originals