LinkedIn Is Making It Easier To Search For People With AI 20
LinkedIn is rolling out an AI-powered people search tool that lets users find connections by describing what they need instead of relying on names or titles. For example, you can enter a more descriptive search, such as "Northwestern alumni who work in entertaining marketing," or even pose a question, like "Who can help me understand the US work visa system." The Verge reports: LinkedIn senior director of product management Rohan Rajiv tells The Verge that the platform will rank results based on the connections you might have with someone, as well as their relevance to your search. [...] LinkedIn is rolling out AI-powered people search to Premium users in the US starting today, but the platform plans on bringing it to all users soon.
Not AI (Score:2)
Language pastoring and search is not AI.
It's not even close to AI.
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Parsing. Not pastoring.
Fucking autocorrection.
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Parsing. Not pastoring.
Fucking autocorrection.
Autocorrect.
Now brought to you by the makers of Intelligence that is indeed incredibly Artificial.
Make a person (TM) (Score:2)
Conjecture: There will be a tsunami of make a person and populate social media accounts services in a year or two.
AI may do its "unintended" work here though when AI slop makes most influencers, youtubers, tictok people less able to monetize their physical appearance for clicks.
Conjecture: Expect Netflix to build a tree of video segments for an episode where there are X paths through the episode from initial scene to final scene and the most watched path is kept as the final version of the episode. A kind
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If they are using AI for it, it is AI powered, no matter if the function itself is trivial. Modern grammar checking is also AI powered. AI is not defined by being something clever, it is a just a category of algorithms that solve problems without human interaction. Remember that ELIZA and your dos game computer enemy fall into the category of AI, just like tree-based question answering.
stalker tech? social engineering tech? (Score:5, Funny)
Find me someone that has all the keys to the kingdom at BigCorp so I can setup a honeypot that can be used to pressure them into switching RMM providers that is totally not at all controlled by a hostile intelligence service.
Sweet! (Score:2)
No we'll get a whole other level of LinkedIN SEO spam slop from people trying to game the "AI" search system.
Sweet!
I'm eager for someone to create an AI bot to tickle all these LinkedIN profiles and get them all excited about traffic. From bots.
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Wouldn't a profile word count do that? And I'm fairly sure there's linkedin spammers as an off-the-shelf service you can get, like any other spam service
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Please explain why someone with a LinkedIn account is trying to not be found.
Re:Please explain (Score:4, Insightful)
You might want a profile you can link to in the resume you send when applying for jobs, or as part of your e-mail signature for your existing business contacts, just to "look normal" to the people you're interacting with. You could think a job application might be discarded as fake if you really don't have an online profile, so you link it and it will be discovered by the AI agent parsing your resume.
Another scenario is if you want to make use of some free Azure credits that MS gives out to startups, an offer which requires that you have a LinkedIn account (for no good reason, of course, just Microsoft being Microsoft). In that case you can put it in private mode after creation. but you might just decide to keep it public for the other reason above.
LinkedIn with more Microsoft nonsense (Score:4, Insightful)
On a more serious note, though we're not getting rid of all these AI stories until the bubble bursts, allow me to posit the following regarding AI.
On hallucinations:
AI don't hallucinate from time to time. Every answer they ever give is equally made up. What people call hallucinations are merely cases where the made up answers are ostensibly wrong. Any AI may apologise when it's pointed out that their answer was incorrect, even if in fact, it happened to be correct.
On the hype about AI being oh so capable, and going to put everyone out of a job:
When the first AI company CEO lets their AI handle all their financials, I'll start paying attention to the hype. But not until the AI programmers let their AI handle all their financials will I start believing. Indeed, convince me by putting your money where your mouth is. Until then, i won't pay a lot of attention to these AI stories.
On general AI / artificial general intelligence:
I'll believe someone managed to develop full general AI when the news hits of the first company with zero employees, just shareholders / owners.
Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
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Essentially gen ai is a spam mill, currently
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I'm available.
Hmm (Score:2)
"Please find me people who have quit LinkedIn because of their disgust over how crappy it had become."
"OK. I'll get right on that..."
Can we have AI reject spam connections? (Score:2)
If you and I didn't ever work together, and we don't already know each other, then you have no reason to want to "connect." I'd like an AI tool that auto-rejects anyone who doesn't have a reason to connect.
Environmental cost? (Score:2)
So, I'm in the latter group where it matters to me; so I'd like AI Impliments to please clearly list "x many grams of CO2" is generated and "x watts of power" and "x ml of water" are consumed for each such query.
Right now though, a lot of people who do care are blissfully unaware of the impact this "ram AI into everything" will be causing.
And