Sam Altman–backed Mentra aims to match neurodivergent jobseekers with ideal jobs | TechCrunch
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Neurodivergent individuals often have a harder time finding jobs than their non-neurodivergent counterparts. Unemployment for neurodivergent adults runs

I read the article but I didn’t check out the platform yet. Thought it might be useful for my fellow autistic people.

      • ZILtoid1991@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        AI has bias issues. While humans can be aware of them and course-correct, with the AI, not so much, and that’s just comes before all the biased data it was trained on.

        • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Ok, I understand. As someone who worked with AI and in hiring in the past I feel like (specifically ND focused) AI can’t do a worse job than traditional recruiting (which is also increasingly done with AI). But I might be wrong. On the other hand so could be you. Have a good one. :)

          • sky@codesink.ioEnglish
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            1 year ago

            It absolutely can do a worse job, and be more biased. Not to mention Sam Altman is backing it? Yeesh. I’m good.

            • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Can you somehow prove that? I don’t see how „absolutely“ reinforces your claim. If conventional hiring wasn’t a bag of dicks, hiring companies (which are shit as well) wouldn’t make billions in revenue.

              But I don’t recognize altman. The name sounds familiar. I might need to check him out.

              • 520@kbin.social
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                1 year ago

                AI can absolutely screw up these things as bad or worse than any other program.

                AI sucks at nuances it isn’t explicitly trained on. That’s how you get AIs at eating disorder charities recommending things like 500 calorie daily deficits (this actually happened).

                AI might be able to get a technically accurate translation, but can’t always tell what’s culturally offensive or colloquially given a new meaning.

                For example, in Spanish “Soy” means “I”, and “Caliente” means “Hot”. What do you think “Soy caliente” means?

                Well if you got ‘I am hot’, Google Translate will actually agree with you…but it doesn’t mean that at all. What it actually means is ‘I am horny’.

                • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  Yeah, I get it. Pretty rough around the edges, no doubt. I still don’t think this makes „AI powered“ or „assistet“ worse than conventional recruiting. That’s all I‘m saying. It’s also a buzz word that gets used for a lot more than it is worth btw.

                  • 520@kbin.social
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                    1 year ago

                    The quality of conventional recruiters can vary wildly. I’ve dealt with both actual pieces of shit recruiters (the kind that try outright guilt tripping and manipulation) and some amazing ones.