the end of the job interview with AI memory
OpenAI recently announced their improved memory feature. It can now infer and remember much more about you from previous chats, building out a separate memory database of (what it deems) are important things about you.
Since this feature launched, there's been a trend of prompting:
As you can see, ChatGPT's response, in my case, was desperately boring1. I remember asking it about the AirTag battery, I don't remember being "genuinely" stressed.
An AI shadow of Everyone 👤
In the future, when AI use becomes extremely widespread and standardised, you can imagine different AI services sharing the same memory database about you. This is similar to advertising services building up a profile about you as you move around the web. The difference being that this memory database will have a much larger, and more specific, context about your work (from your AI coworkers), about your hobbies (from your AI friends) and about your feelings (from your AI therapists).
It's not hard to jump to some conclusions here. If the AI "shadow of you" authentically encompasses your work history, thoughts, feelings and general personality, a platform like LinkedIn is well placed to tune their algorithms towards a "For You" page for jobs uniquely matched to your skillset and personality.
Taking it one step further, it's easy to imagine a time where job applications, and even job interviews, are relegated to history. If you're unemployed, your AI shadow will be out on the market; selectively parsed, questioned and passed onto the next stage by AI hiring agents. There could be a final humanity check through something like World or a physical interview 2.
Pessimistically, the progress of AI may allow employers to tighten their grip over the end-to-end process of hiring; jobs may be opaquely denied from workers based on not-so-fun guidelines: "not too much time spent with AI therapy", "only political beliefs that align with X" etc.
Optimistically, the progress of AI speaks to a world where computers take over almost all of the banality of job seeking and help humans get to the exciting part quicker; doing something creative at a job that is perfectly tuned to our motivation, skills and interests. Let's stick with the optimistic worldview, offloading administrative tasks to a super competent set of AIs, freeing up humans to work on personally more meaningful and creative pursuits; that's the true dream of AI.
you can see karpathy's example here.↩
considering we will have AI coworkers who can jump on virtual meetings, I would imagine companies would need hard proof of humanity that only a physical interview can provide.↩