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The next logical step would be to train an adversarial AI against the hiring AI. You'd have the system generate your resume and application to maximize your cha
by dcolkitt 6y ago
The next logical step would be to train an adversarial AI against the hiring AI. You'd have the system generate your resume and application to maximize your chances. Then the hiring AI would need to be re-trained to account for this. And so on.
In the far future, this feedback loop creates an economy where every job application is total gibberish. No human can possibly explain why their resume is a recipe for carne asada, an excerpt from Moby Dick, and a bunch of windings. But supposedly it's predicted to increase final offer salary by 13.54%, so nobody questions it. Anybody who still writes out their resume by hand is considered a luddite weirdo, and definitely not someone you'd want to have join your company.
- dunefox 6y agoOr just send in an image of a koala with a noise filter over it. 99% confidence for a prime candidate.
- dennis_jeeves 6y agoLol.
- airhead969 6y agoYeap. There then ought to be a whole cottage industry of gaming AI applications and AI hiring. So, we're basically voluntarily letting the machines take over and replace human jobs, nuance, and critical thinking? Oh and then the next logical progressions are AI performance reviews and AI management. Within a decade, your AI boss will slinging around a coffee cup and saying "yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Sunday too." You are a true believer, blessings of the State, blessings of the masses. Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents and be happy.
- beckingz 6y agoThere are numerous resume consultants who specialize in getting past HR screens and keyword filters.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoWho? Where? Asking for a friend...
- hkmurakami 6y agoThis has a strong Kurt Vonnegut smell to it.
- 2sk21 6y agoI also thought of Player Piano when I saw this
- Iwan-Zotow 6y agohe's ded, you know it, right?
- bregma 6y agoSo it goes.
- patrickthebold 6y agoI have a section on my resume called: 'Technologies I'm Unfamiliar With' Underneath is a Laundry list of today's sexiest technologies. It's not quite as advanced as your suggestion, but it's pretty effective. It's also a good icebreaker when you have the in person interview.
- wincy 6y agoI'd say your name pans out, that seems pretty bold to me.
- dimitrios1 6y agoI've always viewed staying up with the latest tools, technologies, and practices as part of my job. I've also found that the people who tend to not do this or display a similar sentiment you touched on with your comment, it's because you have carved out a large enough amount of success or niche with what you are working with. Am I reading into this too far?
- nitrogen 6y agoThe breadth of the industry makes it completely impossible to keep up with everything. I started typing out a list, but the list would be impossibly long.
- dimitrios1 6y agoI agree that it is impossible to keep up with everything. I am more viewing it from a prospective employability position and safeguarding my future interests. I may do very well writing apps in containers with traditional load balancers, but I very well better learn some Serverless and JAMStack type patterns as well, as a completely random example. It's part of the filtering process to determine what subset you want to target, but learn something new as often as you can. The bonus I've learned over time is the more paradigms, tools, and technologies I learn and practice configuring and launching sample apps or solving simple challenges with, the more they all start to look and feel the same.
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- 2112 6y agoThe scary-ier part is how many life-critical processes might end up ( or already are ) like this. That being said ; balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to. But if you don't have access to that kind of technology, i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [0] [0] https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/06/19/facebooks-ai-accidentally-created-its-own-language/ https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/06/19/fa...
- SharpeDidntFoul 6y agoI kind of rambled on about this in another comment on this thread, but I paid someone $250 to optimize my resume with key words to appease AI. It worked. I got automated replies to schedule phone screenings from jobs that had rejected my old resume. It's already happening.
- xyzelement 6y agoI am curious what they did - can you share high level details? EG: if you're a developer, did they add more technologies, or what was the type of thing?
- Frazmatazz 6y agoThe very fact that they serve many clients gives the service a good view on what generates increased response rates. I once scraped a bunch of job postings and did a simple word frequency count. Just eyeballing the list, I picked out a few of the most commonly mentioned techs and skills. By just rewording a few of my resume entries, it seemed to increase my response rate by quite a bit. For example, in the description of one project I added "using JSON". It wasn't particularly important to that project that the exchange format used was JSON, but apparently many of those doing hiring are seeing fit to include that in their searches.
- gifnamething 6y agoBusiness plan: Undercut Pymetrics by offering a free service. Dominate the market. Then, monetise it by selling optimisation to the applicants.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoWe can just replay the history of SEO. I believe we're at the point (was it the late 90s for SEO?) where it's time to put all the keywords onto your resume in a white font.
- uncomputation 6y agoBuilding on this, what are the chances this just leads to a cyberpunk underground economy of interview-passing images/videos?
- ionwake 6y agoI just wanted to say I loved this comment, thanks. Subbed.
- tomjen3 6y agoI would read that if it was a book.
- imtringued 6y agoYou underestimate the conflict of interest by far. What makes you think the company that creates the hiring AI won't create the resume AI under a different company name? It's like turbo tax. Create a problem and sell the solution.