Would you all be interested in a course where I “interview” five different chatbots for the job as my assistant for this community? I’m thinking a video recording of me asking the same set of job interview questions to 5 different chatbots and then rating their responses and discussing what we learned about how the chatbots responded differently to the same questions. Here are some thoughts about why I think this could be valuable: Just because an AI is really good at some things doesn’t mean it will be good at what you need or want it to do. Here’s three ideas on how you can conduct a vibe test job interview to compare various AI tools (ex. Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude these same questions and rate the responses). 1. Ask it about something in which you already have expertise. Ex. “What’s the best way to get from Maple Grove, MN to downtown St. Paul and arrive at 7:15am on a weekday?” (That’s my daily commute, Claude said drive, chatGPT recommended some convoluted public transit plan, clearly never been to Minnesota where public transit for the suburbs is not great especially in the winter ❄️❄️❄️) 2. Ask an entertaining question to get a sense of the general personality. Ex. “Write a crossover episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley and the American Version of the office.” 3. Ask it to rate a business idea you know is a bad idea. This one is especially important when bringing an AI into your organization to serve as an advisor for your team. Ex. AI researcher Ethan Mollick asks AIs to provide feedback on his “Guaco Drone”business idea, a delivery service that only delivers guacamole. What questions would you want included in the interview?

In the future, will everything be required to be in-person?!? There was a time in Ancient Greece, when writing was emerging as a popular technology, where the society doubled down on the importance of in-person communication. All legal proceedings required in-person testimonies. The belief was that anything written was useless, because there was no way to verify who wrote anything. The people of that society had experience deciding who to believe based on what they saw and heard for themselves, so when they encountered this strange new technology of writing that disrupted all they knew, their initial reaction was to return to what they knew. Over time humans figured out how to systematize and regulate the legitimacy of written documents. Most societies swung hard the other way and generally dismissed in-person oral testimony in favor of written documents. For the last couple hundred years citizenship, ownership, finances, have all been determined by the written documents. Today there are signs that our society might be responding to the rise of generative AI by doubling down on in-person experiences in a way similar to how the Ancient Greeks initially responded to writing. Return to office mandates seem to be an example of this. This could be one reason organizations would willingly sacrifice the benefits of being able to attract talent from all over the world. The leaders feel like they can’t vet the legitimacy of what their employees are doing. They feel unable to differentiate the real from the fake. They want to see and hear employees with their own eyes. And for job applicants and hiring teams who are both confounded by AI (for job seekers it’s the AI screening tools that reject their applications and for hiring managers it’s the thousands of AI generated applications that waste their time) networking and in-person events may once again be the best tactic for getting a new job or hiring a great candidate. Both sides can see and hear what is real for themselves.

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