Today’s episode is coming to you from our NYC Live Event, and will not be our usual type of episode! It’ll be more like a “town hall meeting” so grab onto your seats as we talk about generative AI and its role in the world of talent and acquisition. Our first amazing guest is Jenny Cotie Kangas, a friend of the show and force to be reckoned with. Our second guest is the innovative Chief Technology Officer at Hired, Dave Walters. In our discussion we cover how Jenny is conceptualizing AI and leveraging it best, why you don’t have to be afraid of generative AI, and she talks us through some examples of how to use ChatGPT. Dave recaps his opinion on the first half of the session with Jenny, and shares his thoughts on setting generative AI policies at work and why it’ll be important. We also dive into Local Law 144, as well as some other questions asked by our audience members. This is a great episode on all things generative AI, so don’t miss out!
Key Points From This Episode:
Rob introduced today’s live event and the mission behind it.
He introduces our first guest; Jenny Cotie Kangas.
Jenny shares her background and how she wound up where she is today.
How she’s conceptualizing AI in her role and making sure to leverage it best.
Don’t be afraid of generative AI: calling up the ‘hat’ you want the AI tool to wear.
An introduction to ChatGPT and what generative AI is.
Jenny takes us through live examples of using ChatGPT; including prompts and more.
Things to remember when using ChatGPT or generative AI.
How Jenny uses generative AI in her day-to-day.
Checking for bias and why that’s necessary.
Bringing in a situation and asking for options.
We answer “What are sharp questions?” (a live example).
Jenny talks about prompts and how to create them.
Can you give too many inputs to ChatGPT as a prompt?
Rob introduces our next guest: Chief Technology Officer, Dave Walters.
His reactions and thoughts on Jenny’s segment of the session.
The difference between ChatGPT and Google.
Dave’s thoughts on his team using ChatGPT for 80% of their work: setting policies.
Moving past the hype of AI into the real world of AI: democratizing AI.
Other AI tools that use generative AI (other than ChatGPT).
We discuss Local Law 144: what it is and when to be concerned about it.
Who is verifying or validating data presented to us through generative AI?
Legal pushback they’ve received since using these AI tools.
The best career advice our guests have ever received.
Tweetables:
“I leverage AI to enable me, the human, to be able to go further and faster at work.” — @CotieJenny [0:06:33]
“One of the things to remember is, [with] any sort of generative AI, you have to ask the right sharp question to get the answer.” — @CotieJenny [0:15:13]
“Don’t upload all your business secrets into ChatGPT, that’s probably not a smart thing to do, and I would avoid doing that!” — Dave Walters [0:25:48]
“I would recommend to everybody — make sure you are getting policies in place — so that your teams know what to do and what not to do [with generative AI]. Don’t let that policy we don’t use it, that is a bad approach and you will fall behind.” — Dave Walters [0:26:13]
“These laws, at a very very high level, are meant to ensure that we’re using technology for good.” — @CotieJenny [0:37:22]
“[Generative AI] is not smart enough to figure out what is factual and what is not factual, today. It’s a big problem — one of the biggest challenges with generative AI, it’s going to have to be solved, [and] it’s not easy to solve.” — Dave Walters [0:39:37]
“Any time something is new it’s a lot easier to attack it than to try and understand how we can put effective guardrails in place so that we can use this for good.” — @CotieJenny [0:42:47]
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