Hilke Schellmann describes how we use AI-powered algorithms to screen resumes, process background checks, facilitate candidate online assessments, and conduct one-way interviews in the book The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now.
While the AI-powered algorithms for hiring humans may not work with Large Language Models (Gen AI), we do have insights from Melanie Mitchell. She is one of the best explainers of AI. Her bestselling book is Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. She explains very well what AI can do and what it cannot do.
She recently casted doubt on recent LLM research that stated: “GPT-3 appears to display an emergent ability to reason by analogy, matching or surpassing human performance across a wide range of text-based problem types.”
She replicated the experiments using counterfactual tasks to stress-test claims of reasoning in large language models. While the advances of LLMs have been amazing, we need people like Melanie Mitchell to help make sense of the hype and sensational claims. Otherwise, how are we going to know to how hire our next assistant?
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