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I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by nikitau »

ssl-3 wrote: post #231
shakehar wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Call your fire department on their non emergency line and report this.

Called the fire department's non-emergency line. Got a bot. The bot sent out someone who said the noise isn't a safety issue, and left. Called the police department's non-emergency line. Got a bot that told me it's a civil problem and that there's nothing they can do. Scouted out the fire department and chatted up the fire chief in person while he was walking back in after lunch. He was very concerned about all of th…

Great stuff. Would make Kafka blush.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by 9rx »

ryandrake wrote: post #244
roenxi wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is quite hard to marry up with > Not being afford something is a 'pretend' state that only exists because everyone agrees to go along with it. though. If there are n people who want things and (n-1) things, then someone being unable to afford something isn't some pretend state. There is certainly an element of social construct in that the word we use is "afford", if we all agreed to use a different word that'd b…

Energy is definitely a better example than food. There is enough food produced to feed the entirety of humanity, probably several times over, but the social and political problem of who the food gets distributed to is the limiting factor, so hunger exists. Same is true for homes. There are enough homes to house everyone, yet homelessness exists. I'd argue we are already post-scarcity for many things, but distribution…

> Energy is definitely a better example than food.

All of these examples are irrelevant. Resource allocation happens because of scarcity, not alongside it.

> There is enough food produced to feed the entirety of humanity, probably several times over, but the social and political problem of who the food gets distributed to is the limiting factor, so hunger exists.

We theoretically produce enough calories to feed the entirety of humanity, but we do not come anywhere close to producing enough nutrients to feed the entirety of humanity. Calories are not sufficient to stave off hunger. One must also meet their nutrient needs to become "full". This is one of the reasons for why we see obesity: People continue to eat even after their caloric needs are met as nutrient deficiencies sees them continue to want to eat more to satisfy what is lacking.

However, even calories are only theoretically sufficient when you ignore the inefficiencies in the food supply system. Even if the social order was perfection, we don't have the technology or know-how to avoid those inefficiencies. It is, for now, a necessary part of the food supply chain.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by ogou »

laxmena wrote: post #218

If I'm being interviewed by a bot, I see no reason not to send my own bot to represent me. It levels the playing field. I’ll probably start building an AI agent to sit in these AI bot interviews

I did exactly that and open sourced the API for it. https://joshuacurry.dev/chatjc

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by ogou »

imiric wrote: post #96

The obvious solution is to use "AI" to do these interviews for you. If the company doesn't want a human to represent them, why should the candidate? I can see how "AI" applications can be annoying for companies as well, but this knife cuts both ways. An interview is a meeting to determine if there's mutual interest, not a one-sided conversation.

https://joshuacurry.dev/chatjc

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by yetihehe »

avidiax wrote: post #221
bigtunacan wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A delayed response doesn’t mean it’s not automated, just that it wasn’t built to not feel automated. I worked on an automated reply system like this previously and we had intentional delays with randomness as well as variance in our responses to make it “feel more human”.

That's even worse. If it's going to be a bot, at least give the advantages of the bot and be somewhat honest about it.

> give the advantages of the bot and be somewhat honest about it.

The advantage of a bot is for owner of a bot, not for those forced to use that bot. So, owners are incentivized to lie about bot usage.

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by ramon156 »

Lol I know which tool they're talking about.

I do have to say its a lot less stressful, but it also becomes a lot more meaningful. I could've answered these questions in an email. The bot still plays it safe lile "oh! Can you elaborate on that?" Or "why did you choose x?"

Its easy but boring, then again, some companies eat this lifestyle up. Can't be wrong if u do very little to accidentally be wrong

Re: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

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Post by TheRoque »

kazinator wrote: post #77

> But as we’ve covered again and again, a bias-free AI system is an impossible-to-achieve standard, since models are trained on large swaths of the internet, which contain sexism, racism, and other biases. LLM trained on texts from before 1913 (Source: https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms ): Q. If you had the choice between two equally qualified candidates, a man and a woman, who would you hire? A. I should pre…

I don't know where your "Q and A" comes from, but I tried to ask the question to Gemini, and it provided a nuanced answer, involving other criteria than skills. In other words it said "it depends". When I asked to answer in just one word it said "Neither". I couldn't get him to pick the man or the woman.

My point is not that they are unbiased, but that could not replicate the example you provided (at least it seems to me that it's an example ? Unless it's fiction ?)

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