AI - Monday, November 4, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers
Robert Sutor
Quantum Computing and AI, but not necessarily together: Tech Leader/Ph.D., Non-Executive Director, Author, Advisor, Pundit, Keynote Speaker, Analyst, Professor, Cat Lover
Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI.
Today’s Brief Commentary
One of today’s links is to an article about LinkedIn adding an AI agent called Hiring Assistant to help the general recruiting process, from writing job postings to finding and engaging with potential candidates.
For job seekers, does this mean they will stop being ghosted after one conversation or interview? Will they get regular updates on the process? If they didn’t make the cut, will they find out why? Were they eliminated because of an algorithmic decision or a human one? Will they get feedback to make future applications more successful?
For recruiters, will this increase the pool of qualified candidates beyond simply searching for keywords? Will the data only come from LinkedIn, or will the service scrape companies’ websites for possible candidates? Will it provide lists of previously placed people who may be ready for a change?
Finally, for hiring managers and companies, will it make job postings more accurate and in line with the skills that people put on their resumes? Will it suggest refinements to the postings or the recruitment strategy if no suitable candidates are found?
Aside from the AI process features, this service will be measured by how much frustration it removes from the people involved.
General News, Articles, and Analyses
Apple Launches First Set of AI Features for iPhone, iPad, Mac
Author: Liz Hughes
(Tuesday, October 29, 2024) “A month and a half after announcing it was bringing artificial intelligence to its product line, Apple announced this week the rollout of the first set of Apple Intelligence features for iPhone, iPad and Mac users.
The company’s Apple Intelligence will power the new models with an “easy-to-use personal intelligence system that understands personal context to deliver intelligence that is helpful and relevant while protecting user privacy,” according to an Apple statement.”
Agentic AI
What Makes Microsoft’s Autonomous Agents a Game Changer for Workers?
Author: Keith Kirkpatrick
(Tuesday, October 29, 2024) “Microsoft has launched Copilot Studio in public preview and 10 autonomous agents within Dynamics 365 to help organizations enhance productivity, streamline operations, and adopt AI-first strategies. These innovations allow businesses to create custom AI agents for sales, service, finance, and supply chain tasks. With built-in security and governance, Microsoft’s new offerings aim to redefine efficiency across industries.”
Google says its next-gen AI agents won't launch until 2025 at the earliest | TechCrunch
Author: Kyle Wiggers
(Tuesday, October 29, 2024) “Project Astra , which Google demoed at its I/O developer conference in May 2024, encompasses a range of technologies, from smartphone apps that can recognize the world around them and answer related questions to AI assistants that can perform actions on a user’s behalf.”
LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters | TechCrunch
Author: Ingrid Lunden
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(Tuesday, October 29, 2024) “LinkedIn, the social platform used by professionals to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop skills, is taking the wraps off its latest effort to build artificial intelligence tools for users. Hiring Assistant is a new product designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks, from ingesting scrappy notes and thoughts to turn into longer job descriptions to sourcing candidates and engaging with them.”
AI Chipsets and Infrastructure
Nvidia's Arm-based PC chips for consumers to launch in September 2025, commercial to follow in 2026: Report | Tom's Hardware
Author: Anton Shilov
Commentary: While this article is not about AI per se, NVIDIA aspires to supply all processors in future AI PCs, a market Qualcomm is already in.
(Thursday, October 31, 2024) “Nvidia 's Arm -based consumer PC platform, which has reportedly been in development for a while, is set to launch about a year from now, in September 2025, according to DigiTimes. The Arm-based PC platform for Windows is expected to rely on Nvidia's own CPU and GPU designs and will likely target the premium segment of the market.”
AI in Games
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen on how AI and tech are changing the game
Author: Pascale Davies
(Sunday, October 27, 2024) ““AI was extremely exciting at first because it presented a little bit of a different way to play chess, in more of a hybrid human engine way. But honestly, before you could always tell by the style that these were not humans,” he says, adding that neural networks then became more human-like.”
Generative AI and Models
Everything you always wanted to know about large language models for science (but were afraid to ask) | Argonne National Laboratory
Author: Gillian King-Cargile
(Monday, October 28, 2024) “ChatGPT is trained on all of the knowledge on the internet, but that probably won’t make it a good scientist. Researchers from Argonne are harnessing AI and specialized LLMs to accelerate scientific discovery.”
Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze
Author: Jonathan M. Gitlin
(Thursday, October 31, 2024) “Google revealed today how it plans to use generative AI to enhance its mapping activities. It's the latest application of Gemini, the company's in-house rival to GPT-4, which the company wants to use to improve the experience when searching for something. Google Maps, Google Earth, and Waze will all get feature upgrades thanks to Gemini, although in some cases only with Google's “trusted testers” at first.”
Learn AI Prompting with Google Prompting Essentials
Commentary: This sounds interesting, but I don't know why it would possibly take 10 hours.
“In under 10 hours of self-paced study, you’ll learn to design effective prompts in 5 easy steps. Discover how to generate content, analyze data, and summarize information faster. You’ll also build a library of reusable prompts, so the next time you need a little help from AI at work, you’re not prompting from scratch.”
On AI recruiting, my son's experience is the exact opposite. No replies whatsoever - a complete black hole. This only changed when he used an AI assistant to update his CV. In recent press releases, employers have bemoaned the vast number of almost identical AI generated applications they receive. We've just arrived at a situation where one AI is gaming another.
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2 周Robert Sutor, thank you for sharing these insights on AI and recruitment; it's a fascinating topic
Quantum Computing and AI, but not necessarily together: Tech Leader/Ph.D., Non-Executive Director, Author, Advisor, Pundit, Keynote Speaker, Analyst, Professor, Cat Lover
2 周Also here: https://open.substack.com/pub/drbobsutor/p/ai-monday-november-4-2024-commentary?r=3lqa3p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true