Merged Artificial Intelligence

[The Great Zaganza]

It does have some funny side-effects.

I received a beautifully-written application letter today.

Sadly, the person who sent it to me forgot to remove their request of whatever AI they were using.

The letter started with: "Write a cover letter for X job based on my cv and the position description."

Saved me reading any further.

Someone who knows how to produce a decent text using AI?
I'm sure you can get some kickback if you send their stuff to a company recruiter.

 

[The Atheist]

Someone who knows how to produce a decent text using AI?

I doubt it was worth reading, AI produces garbage, but it looked pretty. AI letters are formulaic and boring.

I'm sure you can get some kickback if you send their stuff to a company recruiter.

I am the recruiter. AI has use in recruiting to weed out the absolute rubbish, but not much more. As I noted some pages ago, the best use I find is it saves me time because anyone with an AI letter gets the delete button immediately.

 

[steenkh]

It does have some funny side-effects.

I received a beautifully-written application letter today.

Sadly, the person who sent it to me forgot to remove their request of whatever AI they were using.

The letter started with: "Write a cover letter for X job based on my cv and the position description."

Saved me reading any further.

I don't know what kind of job this is, but if it is not about being able to express oneself in prose, does it really matter how the application is written? The CV is the same in any case.

 

[Wudang]

I don't know what kind of job this is, but if it is not about being able to express oneself in prose, does it really matter how the application is written? The CV is the same in any case.

Speaking as a deep techie, if they can’t be bothered giving their CV a quick read before sending it then I don’t trust them to say test code before committing it or that their work matches the spec. Leaving that in or not using the most basic spellcheck is just careless.

 

[Darat]

Speaking as a deep techie, if they can’t be bothered giving their CV a quick read before sending it then I don’t trust them to say test code before committing it or that their work matches the spec. Leaving that in or not using the most basic spellcheck is just careless.

I think it would be a big no from me for pretty much any role, not proof reading a job application?

I've had plenty of CVs which have contained spelling mistakes and other mistakes and since we all use computers with spellcheckers a spelling mistake is usually a negative mark against the applicant, other mistake's probably wouldn't bother me unless of course their being a requirement for writing in the job...

I don't know what kind of job this is, but if it is not about being able to express oneself in prose, does it really matter how the application is written? The CV is the same in any case.

I go back and forth on this one. When I was a high flying executive I used a company to tart up my CV a couple of times, and that was about him taking the CV I'd done and altering the formatting, grammar and the like. If today I was in the same position would I use AI for that instead of a bloke at a company? I'm not too sure. Might be a good experiment to see what AI would produce from the same input. I suspect the human version would still be the better version.

 

[W.D.Clinger]

I've had plenty of CVs which have contained spelling mistakes and other mistakes and since we all use computers with spellcheckers a spelling mistake is usually a negative mark against the applicant, other mistake's probably wouldn't bother me unless of course their being a requirement for writing in the job...

In my experience, spellcheckers are wrong more often than they're right, and autocorrect autocorrupts more often than it corrects.

At this forum, for example, the default spellchecker (which I don't know how to disable or customize) consistently tells me the American spellings of words (or should that be wourds?) are incorrect because the British spelling is different.

That spellchecker also flags words such as autocorrupt, which is what my cell phone does quite consistently. My texts would have fewer misspellings if I knew how to turn off its autocorruption. (Rant in spoiler.) (Yes, I'm a Luddite who hates my "smart" phone so much that I don't want to get to know it well enough to turn off its many misfeatures that annoy me. Much as I'd like to replace it with a dumb phone, however, it seems to be the least inconvenient way to deal with the ubiquity of two-factor authentication. Shall we send a code to you by text, by phone, or by email? Email doesn't work because my email account uses two-factor authentication as well. By text doesn't work with a dumb phone. I suppose the "by phone" option would work with a dumb phone, but I don't think I can count on ongoing support for that modality.)

Edited to add this anecdote: Years ago, as an NSF review panel was finishing its work, I was given the task of typing its conclusions into Microsoft Word. I have always gone out of my way to avoid using Microsoft Word, but NSF insisted. You'll have to imagine what Word's autocorrect feature was doing to the highly technical prose I was trying to write. Neither the representative of the NSF nor any of the professional computer scientists on the panel knew how to disable the autocorrect. I don't remember exactly how we ended up dealing with the problem, but our workaround was about as convenient as typing the prose we wanted into Emacs, copy-pasting into Word, and inserting a zero-width space into any words that ended up being corrupted.

 

[steenkh]

Speaking as a deep techie, if they can’t be bothered giving their CV a quick read before sending it then I don’t trust them to say test code before committing it or that their work matches the spec. Leaving that in or not using the most basic spellcheck is just careless.

Fair point.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

I have been following AI generated tseampunk videos for a year or so. Continuing small incremental improvements edging closer to reality.

Integration with speech is not here as yet but check out this for an example of what can be done :
Hollywood lookout.

Even the thumbnail screams don't watch this'll be horrible.

 

[Darat]

And those monstrous bags they are carrying emitting those screeching sounds shows AI has a long way to go before they can produce anything realistic.

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Even the thumbnail screams don't watch this'll be horrible.

I suppose everyone could make their own choice and judgment. It's only a couple minutes of one's time.

 

[The Atheist]

I don't know what kind of job this is, but if it is not about being able to express oneself in prose, does it really matter how the application is written? The CV is the same in any case.

Personally, I prefer no application letter.

... other mistake's ...

Apostrophe abuse moves from declined to the death penalty!

 

[Blue Mountain]

And those monstrous bags they are carrying emitting those screeching sounds shows AI has a long way to go before they can produce anything realistic.

Errr ... what?

 

[SpuriusMaximus]

And those monstrous bags they are carrying emitting those screeching sounds shows AI has a long way to go before they can produce anything realistic.

I thought bagpipes are supposed to sound like someone is sexually molesting a cat

 

[Wudang]

I thought bagpipes are supposed to sound like someone is sexually molesting a cat

As if a Scotsman would ever stick anything in a kitty!

I’m Scottish, we’re allowed to joke about ourselves.

 

[SpuriusMaximus]

As if a Scotsman would ever stick anything in a kitty!

I’m Scottish, we’re allowed to joke about ourselves.

My joke was also shamelessly plagiarised from Danny Bhoy who's Scottish

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"It takes an Irishman to play the pipes!" (From some Mel Gibson movie.)

 

[Wudang]

"It takes an Irishman to play the pipes!" (From some Mel Gibson movie.)

Was it Braveheart? As I recall they only used Irish uilleann bagpipes and not Scottish varieties.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Was it Braveheart? As I recall they only used Irish uilleann bagpipes and not Scottish varieties.

Bimbo! (or something like that.)

 

[Emily's Cat]

I like bagpipes...

 

[arthwollipot]

Was it Braveheart? As I recall they only used Irish uilleann bagpipes and not Scottish varieties.

There are examples of bladder pipes from all over the place. The Scottish Highland bagpipe (breath-powered, with three drones and a chanter) is merely the most well-known.