The main problem with AI in hiring isn’t that it makes mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, that’s hardly news. The problem is different: it starts pretending it already understands everything far too early.
My old project Exploristo started a long time ago quite simply. As it usually goes with projects like this: you solve some small problem of your own, you do one quite sensible thing, then it quietly pulls the next one along, and before long it’s too late to pretend this was ever a small experiment.
AI has become the main subject of internet hype in recent years, much like cryptocurrency a decade ago. Large language models can do things that seemed impossible not long ago: write code, produce text, explain complex phenomena. They look almost intelligent.
