What really winds me up about all this "AI" chat at the moment? Just how few people know how to understand how it functions. We're so numerically and data illiterate as societies that you can...
What really winds me up about all this "AI" chat at the moment? Just how few people know how to understand how it functions.
We're so numerically and data illiterate as societies that you can comfortably pull the wool over anyone's eyes with a sharp slide deck and some fancy sounding corporate jargon. People don't know how to ask the right questions because they're so statistically illiterate and can't fathom how these things work.
My soon to be former work place recently put a system in for recruitment that does psyche tests. The first batch came through and I went and sat with the recruitment teams to see if my hypothesis was true. They couldn't even read a bell curve or histogram as the analysis of a cohort of recruitment. They didn't know what to do with the data and would have made arbitrary decisions that wasn't what the data was informing them to do.
They'd been sold a lie and hadn't consulted the people who could have helped them before implementation. Instead now they run the risk of discriminating based on data analysis, yay.
Artificial intelligence, commonly known as AI, has been adopted by a quarter of businesses in the United States, according to the 2022 IBM Global AI Adoption Index, a jump of more than 13% over the previous year. Many are beginning to use it in the hiring process.
State laws haven’t kept up. Only Illinois, Maryland and New York City require employers to ask for consent first if using AI during certain parts of the hiring process. A handful of states are considering similar legislation.
“Legislators are critical, and as always, legislators are always late to the party,” said Maryland state Del. Mark Fisher, a Republican. Fisher sponsored his state’s law, which went into effect in 2020, regulating the use of facial recognition programs in hiring. It prohibits an employer from using certain facial recognition services — such as those that might cross-check applicants’ faces against outside databases — during an applicant’s interview process unless the applicant consents.
“Technology innovates first, and then it always seems like a good idea, until it isn’t,” Fisher said. “That’s when legislators step up and try to regulate things as best as they can.”
Think about how readily and confidently ChatGPT "lies". Basically made to be a politician lol But also it can't do even pretty basic math so maybe not a great plan.
Come to think of it we would probably have a better government if we replaced Congress with AI - Certainly couldn't be any worse.
Think about how readily and confidently ChatGPT "lies". Basically made to be a politician lol
But also it can't do even pretty basic math so maybe not a great plan.
What really winds me up about all this "AI" chat at the moment? Just how few people know how to understand how it functions.
We're so numerically and data illiterate as societies that you can comfortably pull the wool over anyone's eyes with a sharp slide deck and some fancy sounding corporate jargon. People don't know how to ask the right questions because they're so statistically illiterate and can't fathom how these things work.
My soon to be former work place recently put a system in for recruitment that does psyche tests. The first batch came through and I went and sat with the recruitment teams to see if my hypothesis was true. They couldn't even read a bell curve or histogram as the analysis of a cohort of recruitment. They didn't know what to do with the data and would have made arbitrary decisions that wasn't what the data was informing them to do.
They'd been sold a lie and hadn't consulted the people who could have helped them before implementation. Instead now they run the risk of discriminating based on data analysis, yay.
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Think about how readily and confidently ChatGPT "lies". Basically made to be a politician lol
But also it can't do even pretty basic math so maybe not a great plan.