www.business-review.eu Business Review | December 2018
40 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI poised to reshape our apps – and our societies Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the word on every techie’s lips these days. Experts say there are no apps in the making that are not likely to use AI in one way or another. It is a broad use of the term meant to show that we are giving more control to machines to do what humans are not equipped to.
Dreamstime
By Aurel Dragan
AI will still be part of companies’ recruitment process
R
evolution 4.0 is developing before
machines to become intelligent is knowledge,
rating candidates for software developer jobs
our eyes. And we are getting used to
which means that that we must provide this
and other technical posts in a gender-neutral
it without really noticing. If we look
to the program. Of course, what we feed the
way. That was because the computer model
back we can see how we got used to terms like
machine with is very important. “If we put
was based on observing patterns in resumes
cloud, software-as-a-services, platform-as-a-
garbage in, then we get garbage out. If we put
submitted over a 10-year period, most of
service, big data, internet of things. It is now
intelligence in, then we will get intelligence
which came from men, so the system taught
time to accept AI as a normal thing even if the
out,” says Marian Popa, CEO of DB Global
itself that male candidates were preferable
way we use it might not be the right one.
Technologies Romania.
and penalized resumes that included words
AI covers a whole area of computer science
A good example of the limitations of AI
like “women”, including colleges with women in the name.
that emphasizes the creation of intelligent
is Amazon’s automatization of its recruit-
machines. Among the first uses of AI were in
ment process. Officials at the online retailer, a
speech recognition, learning, planning and
company whose success is based on automa-
banded the team, but it shows the limitations
problem solving. It went on to perception,
tization, wanted to find the perfect machine
of the machine’s learning process. AI will still
reasoning and the ability to manipulate and
to review 100 resumes and pick out the top
be part of companies’ recruitment process,
move objects. The most important thing for
five. But they found that the software was not
and, in the future, it will become more and
Amazon closed the program and dis-