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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by pembrook on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:14AM (#19929752)
This is why we need less humans and more AI/ML in the candidate selection process.

The guy posing Arab Spring interview questions sounds just like those 65 year old talent scouts in MoneyBall skipping over a talented 3rd baseman because the kid “doesn’t have good legs.” Humans are immensely stupid and irrational when it comes to judging other humans.

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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by rimliu on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:43AM (#19930022)
I wonder what makes you think AI/ML is better.
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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by Loughla on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:59AM (#19930175)
My same question. If we make terribly biased decisions, why would something with those biases baked in make any better decisions?

Maybe because they're faster?

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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by MichaelDickens on Thursday May 16, 2019 @04:03PM (#19932537)
You train the AI based on outcomes, not based on humans' judgments of what they expect outcomes to be.
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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by johnhenry on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:21AM (#19936556)
But if your training data is based on previous decisions made using human bias, you're in trouble.
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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by whatshisface on Thursday May 16, 2019 @11:57AM (#19930161)
ML can be used as an unbiased random number generator, unlike humans.
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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by kbenson on Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:14PM (#19930839)
If it's a random number generator, it's not ML. If it's unbiased, it's also not ML. ML is always biased based on the data you train it with, just as any student is biased based on the information they are educated with.
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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by whatshisface on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:55PM (#19932457)
If you trained it on data that wasn't useful at all it would be an unbiased random number generator.
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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by crimsonalucard on Thursday May 16, 2019 @03:49PM (#19932389)
The overall goal of AI/ML is not to replace the candidate selection process but to replace the candidate.
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Re:I turned my interview task for Google into a startup by jazzyjackson on Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:56PM (#19931200)
what data would you train your machine with?
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