On the nose.

The AI chat bot technology is kind of broken; in one of my AI textbooks on AGI engineering (in progress) I discuss why the architectures used have deep flaws. I am not going to say why here and give Google and OpenAI clues, but the basic problem is the methods used give surface results but do not understand deep meaning properly. The transformer architecture tries to predict likely next statements, based on what it observed when it was trained. That approach is flashy and fast but simply wrong because it is surface and not deep enough. And the famous 'all you need is attention' paper contained some unpalatable hype and flash.

It generally does not perform proper reasoning logic as humans do, but instead is all about the computing linguistically and probablistically of 'if I see A, then my likely answer should be B', instead of true logic-chain-based thought, and this is done without constructing a permanent enduring model like humans do. So it may back up and apologize in the current session but not really memorize things and put them into a corrected model. Thus if you repeat, it still won't learn the true premises and logic to use. Some of that may have been behind the Google racial bias problem (though some of that was due to imposed rules, not training).

Right now the tech herd is adopting the technology and the hype, but both Geof Hinton and I recognized before the current wave that things were going in a casually productive but ultimately flawed direction. The chip guys like Nvidia and the cloud crowd guys are making tons of of money presently from a flawed paradigm, but it will taper a bit after people wake up to what's wrong and can be more ineffective than expected. We need to, and we will, move to a new paradigm and better rigor, and less dishonesty in the AI industry. And SA, my eye is on you, bud.

Just so people know: when you apply through job sites like DICE or Indeed or LinkedIn, the site sends your resume to the client HR and the HR dept automatically sends it to its ATS service to screen it - it may never get through to a human in HR to be voluntarily sent to manager. The software frontend decides who passes and who doesn't. For example, if you apply to Cisco either directly, through DICE etc, or through an agency, it ALL first goes to Cisco's ATS outsourcer.

The one time I got through at Cisco, the agency Indian account manager put my resume directly on the Indian manager's desk. All other times I applied for a contract opportunity (6), I never once heard back though well qualified, and I finally talked to an account manager at the last shop and she talked to HR and found out their flow. Our speculation was Cisco's ATS supplier always dropped me for too much experience as a contractor, erroneously falsely judged as a job jumper. For contractors they apparently seek perms trying to go contract, so the ATS params are tuned for perm job histories.

It is now known that is a mistake, and ATS detects its use and rejects the candidate doing that, for doing that. It combines detection of characters and detection of color, and when it finds the trick is being used, it fails the resume on the basis of fraud.

If you read the sites that talk about how to combat ATS use, they talk about this sort of thing.

The sites also recommend that one spell out acronyms because HR drones are too stupid to know what the abbreviations mean, so they miss the implications of the term in a context. The recommended approach is to put in the acronym, but then explain it by expanding the key letters into whole words.

One thing that's egregious this time around is that 99% of HR departments have switched to automated resume screening that actually block many qualified candidates for reasons I will explain, and for resumes that do pass through, they are further screened by low-end clerical labor that has no knowledge of fields so cannot make valid decisions. So many competent people are being blocked by idiots in HR. You get ranked by how many keywords your resume matches, but the SW cannot read between the lines and understand experience.

The current state of the art in HR automation uses Applicant Tracking Systems or ATS, that are dumb software pretending to be AI. It isn't. This software mis-scans text, mislabels entry data, and in general is a giant clusterfu.. Some good amount of it was written by offshore labor and reflects that. The code barely handles syntax and is terrible at semantic analysis. It is mostly just keyword matches and score keeping.

ATSs look for keywords entered by HR personnel, who frequently misinterpret what a manager states and wants. For example, if you state 'ten years experience with Linux' on your resume but the manager has asked for operating system experience, the ATS will reject you and even if you get through the final round, an ignorant clerk who knows nothing about programming may reject you for not matching the keywords operating and system. If you said Java or C++ but the manager said 'need skills in object-oriented programming' the moron ATS will reject you.

Another problem is ATS SW rejects people having too much experience in its opinion. An ATS would actually reject Donald Knuth or Linus Torvalds for having worked on too many projects in their career. No, I am not exaggerating. An ATS might reject a doctor for having too much experience.

Modern ATS seem to be tuned to do things like accept candidates with roughly 3 to 6 years in maybe two or three jobs, others with more jobs might get classified as job jumpers by badly trained AIs. If you have been a contractor for too many years, you WILL get rejected as a job jumper no matter what projects you ran to success.

HR screening software has turned to s**t in the last five years.

If you want to read horror stories, look up ATS software and see what garbage is and how it can screw people.

I blame the workers for my not getting my salted peanuts on time after the blown door flung the stewardess out of the plane. You'd think airlines would have backup stews. Also I couldn't drink my cocktail because the oxygen mask got in the way. Service sure has declined.

Thanks for your sterling arguments.

"Because I reported it, it must have happened!"

Um, government military report with photo documentation of lozenge craft on IR good enough? Wide distribution of military aricraft sensor screen shots not good enough?

Supercavitating? 230 miles per hour is not speed of sound as detected by our subs.

Now go have another drink and let the big boys play ball. Or go back to your desk at the Pentagon.

A flat out Pentagon lie. For example, Navy personnel have detected and reported underwater objects moving fast than the speed of sound. Under water. And then there are the documented sightings of flying 'lozenges' able to dead stop from high speed, inertia be damned, and fly off at right angles instantly. I could cite more but why bother. The govt is lying.

When I die, I plan to have Ethernet to my coffin so I can work from home in the great beyond.

Some of the things this will be doing is learning to identify possible targets via possible reasons such as patterns in collections of past data surrounding enemies terrorists or combatants. So what they will do is deploy these in combat zones along with a lot of remote sensing such as camera drones etc. That data will be collected then correlated then the system gets trained on it.

How will that work? When they then deploy it elsewhere the AI will give instant estimates of probability of danger, spotting and deciding much faster than a human can.

Now if only there were a cheaper version gamers could buy and run on their game stations, and students could run re their food service.

As far as plane maintenance personnel go, the Oakland airport is staffed with diversity hires from the surrounding communities. Missing tire lugnuts is no surprise.

I'll note in passing that travellers coming from the airport to nearby gas stations get held up or carjacked. One gas station is notorious as a target. Do not ever fly into or out of Oakland.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea...

Slide rule, hell, I use berries on a wire for local storage in my Stone Age computer. Last week a goat ate my Berry PROM and I couldn't boot.

What’s the longest morse code message?

The 100 yard dash.

Try the fish tonight, and don't forget to tip your waiter.

I visited WalMart. I discovered where the one billion people are.

I see the Bud Light fiasco management has skipped over to HP. Truly we live in the Idiocracy era.