Artificial intelligence is a backbone technology thats as important as the internet or electricity.
The long and short of it is that colleges and universities are implementing AI systems to process admissions videos.
Instead, video- and text-based prompts lead applicants through a series of questions.
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It says its AI systems can speed up the process by helping overwhelmed administrators out.
Am I missing something?
So the emphasis is not on using AI to replace the human aspect of the process.
Our whole focus is on helping the human be a better evaluator of other humans.
A good rule to remember is that AI cannot do anything a person couldnt do given enough time.
AIs really good at doing things like sifting through a million images and figuring out which ones are cats.
Humans are much, much better at these kinds of tasks but it takes us a really long time.
The benefit to using AI for these tasks is that it speeds things up.
This is called automation and, usually, its a good thing.
The problem is when people fudge the lines about what humans and AI can and cant do.
And most often, this comes in the form of predictive AI or emotion recognition.
Predictive AI is the most abused, lied-about, and dangerous AI paradigm there is bar none.
The down side here is that the AI could be wrong and you might overstock.
Because lemons dont have aliens in them.
As an example, I have tattoos on my hands and neck.
I also struggle with eye contact, hate touching people to shake hands, and despise small talk.
Do you think any ten people would rate me the same when it comes to professionalism or company/school fit?
How do these systems perform on minority groups?
Are they trained on databases filled with videos sent from autistic individuals?
Can the AI account for culturally-specific aphorisms, analogies, and experiences?
The answer is no, they havent.
These systems are meant to pass the buck.
And that makes no sense.
Worse, humans tend to trust machines more than themselves.
Its embarrassing to know many prestigious institutions of higher learning are using this crap.
Theyre either in on the snake oil scam, or theyre victims of it too.
Heres some more information on bias, predictive AI, and sentiment analysis:
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