From Inclusion to Outrage: Google's Gemini Controversy Unpacked

This week's Amplify Talent Briefing includes Google's AI problem, tech interviews in the spotlight, OpenAI's Sora on Hollwood's mind, a new view on midlife, Generation Alpha and the future of work, why you should be playing with GPTs, LinkedIn's algorithm changes, and more.

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Lars Schmidt
February 26, 2024

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❶ One Big Thing

Google’s Gemini shows the limitations of human interventions in AI.

If your X timeline leans heavily on users from the tech sector like mine, you'd think the recent backlash against Google will be their demise.

If you missed the hubbub, Gemini was seemingly programmed with some human interventions to be more inclusive. The result led to highly publicized questionable results, including Black nazis, a both-sided comparison between Hitler and Elon Musk, and more.

The public outcry ultimately led to Google issuing an apology and suspending the AI chatbot.

This episode had me thinking about the Microsoft Tay fiasco, only in reverse.

This couldn’t have come at a worse time.

As the generative AI locomotive gains steam, we should be having serious conversations about bias and the potential harm of generative AI, particularly on underrepresented communities.

Instead, this will likely be more fuel for the anti-DEI headwinds we see today.

📍This Week’s Top Stories

  • Are tech interviews really out of control? [read]

  • 2024 is the year AI begins consuming jobs, exhibit A. [read]

  • 2024 is the year AI begins consuming jobs, exhibit B. [read]

  • Can you add 7.5 years to your life by changing your mindset? [read]

✨ Workplace Innovation

  • The future of work depends on understanding Generation Alpha [read]

  • You should be playing with GPTs at Work. Here’s how. [read]

  • Smile HR, you’re on camera. [read]

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👀 Eye Candy

McKinsey examines the financial performance deltas of companies leading in digital and AI.

🎧 Ear Candy

If you want to gain an edge on LinkedIn, there are two people you need to hear from: LinkedIn editor-in-chief Dan Roth and senior director of engineering Tim Jurka. In this episode, we discuss the impact of LinkedIn's ongoing algorithm changes, how to adapt your content strategy, new LinkedIn features to help you gain visibility, and an interesting new feature called “suggested posts” that could help boost your best posts for years.

LinkedIn's Algorithm Changes, Explained

Listen to this episode from Problem Solvers on Spotify. If you want to gain an edge on LinkedIn, there are two people you need to hear from: LinkedIn editor-in-chief Dan Roth and senior director of engineering Tim Jurka. In this episode, we discuss the impact of LinkedIn's ongoing algorithm changes, how to adapt your content strategy, new LinkedIn features to help you gain visibility, and an interesting new feature called “suggested posts” that could help boost your best posts for years.

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