In today’s lab our group decided to research on Ai as a hiring tool, I’ve never really heard about it before coming to this class, I’m not sure if it’s because from coming from a different culture where it’s not being as used or it’s just not talked about enough. This was honestly really surprising and scary at the same time, especially after professor Hayward told us about “Kevin situation”
Since many Ai tools are trained on historical hiring data, they’ve learned patterns. In this case Kevin was the most common name in this company so the Ai tool automatically put Kevin as the best candidate for the job. This makes me wonder if Ai keeps growing and is being used in important situations as this while promising efficiency, it could cause more harm and unfairness to people than good.
In this lab we also split into 2 different groups, one working with ChatGPT and the other with notebook, which made me notice some differences. ChatGPT was answering more in summarized short answers and in bullet points while NotebookLM was giving longer responses. ChatGPT also kinda kept repeating the same source page just posted from different people while NotebookLM was giving more diverse responses. So this lead me to a conclusion that ChatGPT is more efficient in making short notes with bullet points, lists, workouts, etc.., but NotebookLM seems more useful for actual learning and curiosity.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09208 – website that kept repeating
This is super intriguing Eva. I had never heard of the Kevin situation until now, and it is fascinating how in this case, having a common name helped Kevin land the job.
It is interesting to see how AI’s training on millions of hiring data can be used in this way to recommend a person for a job. I guess AI’s logic was that if there are many Kevin’s already at this workplace, then somehow anyone named Kevin is equally a good candidate; since companies retain good employees. However, this is scary because an equally qualified candidate might be passed just because they have an uncommon name.