🧙 AI hasn't really nailed interviewing

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Apparently, AI is slurping up electricity faster than you can drink a Capri Sun. And there are no signs of it stopping.

As early as 2025, we’ll see more and more blackouts and flickering lights if we can’t figure out a way to generate more electricity. Throw in the increased demand for electric cars, and by golly, it sounds like there’ll be a struggling power grid upon us. Somebody call, Thor!

Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 🤖 AI interviewers forgot their manners

• 🤓 Everyone is a programmer

• 📎 Clippy has risen from the dead

• 🍞 Toasters were way cooler in the 1920s

AI Is Conducting Interviews and Someone Forgot to Teach Them Manners

… clearly we didn’t have the same Mom

You’ve done it. You’ve finally landed an interview after the seventeenth time sending your resume out. You load up Zoom, enter the chat room, and patiently await your recruiter to join. But they never show. It’s just you, yourself, and a blank screen.

Then, a familiar voice suddenly greets you, but not one of a human. To be honest, it sounds like Siri. Your recruiter turns out to be an actual AI and is the one conducting the interview. Kinda jarring, but maybe it’ll be much better than talking to an actual person.

Well, not really. At least not quite yet. Here’s an experience that’s becoming more and more common:

“After cutting me off, the AI would respond, ‘Great! Sounds good! Perfect!’ and move on to the next question,” Ty said. “After the third or fourth question, the AI just stopped after a short pause and told me that the interview was completed and someone from the team would reach out later.”

Sounds like a lot left to be desired, no?

The social cues, the conversational piece, and the presence of an actual person seem to be missed in an interview setting believe it or not. Will AI interviewers be indistinguishable soon? Almost without a doubt. But right now, there are just a few missing pieces to dial in starting with manners.

I Have a Dream… Everybody is a Programmer

Not gonna lie, after listening to Jensen Huang, Co-Founder and CEO of Nvidia, I was inspired.

He’s on a mission to democratize Artificial Intelligence, which he defines as the automation of intelligence.

When he was asked which skills children should be learning, he went against the grain. For a decade, everyone was told to go into programming.

But his unpopular opinion is to focus on critical thinking and problem-solving because programming in the future won’t be the way we see it today.

For the first time in history, we won’t have to contort ourselves to technology, instead, technology will fit us (in reference to programming languages).

Below are some great statements Jensen made during the World Governments Summit. He also goes into detail about why and how a country should prepare for AI. If you’d like to listen to the full 24-minute interview, you can listen here.

⌛️ Throwback Thursday

A little blast from the past.

Guess who just crawled out of their discarded-by-Microsoft hole to commit acts of computer treason once more?

The one and only, Clippy, the cute little paperclip bastard. Instead of bogging down your computer in Microsoft Office 1997, a group of developers are reviving it to be your desktop personal assistant. Instead of being a truly awful word processing “helper” like before, the devs armed Clippy with Chat-GPT 3.5 to give it some semblance of reasonable function. 

If you’re feeling like a ride on the nostalgia train, you can give it a try. But, if you’re scarred for life like some of us because of Clippy, well, close your eyes and count to ten. This nightmare will probably be over soon.

Daily Delight

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What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• An ex-Google engineer was caught red-handed delivering the secret Krabby Patty formula to competitors in China

• Nuclear power is getting some love to help fuel the dwindling electricity supply

• Google is paying news outlets to test its generative AI to create and publish content

• India now requires all AI models to be checked and approved by their government

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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