๐ฅ Your Future of Work Digest #11
Keep up with the top ideas and trends in 5 minutes each week
Welcome to this weekโs edition! ๐
This week weโll cover a news roundup of:
๐ 2023 AI Consumer Usage Report - What are people actually using, and how often?
๐ ๏ธ Jobseeker AI Tools Roundup - More than interviews: What parts of the process are being impacted by AI?
๐ผ Linkedin: Recruiter and Learning new features
๐ค AI Impact on specific tasks and Skills Matrix
๐ฅ Peer Reviews - is AI able to match humans?
๐ง Other Trending tools
2023 AI Consumer Usage Report
Timely and very insightful report by A16z on how actually people are using AI as of today.
80% of the companies in this list, didnโt exist 1 year ago. Crazy, right?
But what are they used for?
Obviously, the #1 category right now is the โGeneral Asistantโ (i.e. ChatGPT) but two other categories have started to drive significant usage in recent monthsโAI companions (such as CharacterAI) and content generation tools (such as Midjourney and ElevenLabs). Within the broader content generation category, image generation is the top use case with 41% of traffic, followed by prosumer writing tools at 26%, and video generation at 8%.
Weโre also starting to see significant fragmentation. Products that are purpose-built for specific use cases or workflows are growing alongside more generalist tools, and showing signs that they can also become successful companies.
Coming from a marketing background, this is another interesting stat. Basically, the average Generative-AI company right now is getting most of their traffic from โorganicโ sources (referral, word of mouth, organic Social Media) which means they donโt need to rely on heavy marketing budgets like โtraditionalโ companies.
Of course this is driven by the current hype, and is destined to change, especially with the fragmentation and continuing spur of new projects that are being founded every day.
Jobseeker AI Tools Roundup
Great infographic by CVWallet on Jobseeker Adoption of AI.
TLDR; In the near future, most job seekers are likely to use this technology. This could lead to a significant increase in job applications, with each one closely matching the job requirements - but making a lot of applications to be very similar. This will add concerns about data accuracy and its potential impact on trust in the process. At an industry level, suppliers may face challenges due to these changes, and itโs clear that many organizations currently lack a clear plan to address them.
The #1 tool is now CV and resume building (KickResume, Resumaker.ai etc) with close second โTailored searchโ, i.e. help in making sense of the job opportunities. Massive / automatic applications are especially used by entry-level candidates for interships (think about Simplify.jobs) and last thereโs interview questions and career advice (which we just did a focus on in the last issue โ3 Steps to Transform Interviewsโ)
Linkedin: Recruiter and Learning with AI
LinkedIn is also joining the party and recently introduced advanced generative AI features in its Recruiter and Learning platforms.
Recruiter 2024 is basically an AI assitant for sourcing better through the platform, making the filtering and manual searching less painful, while adding message automations and so on.
LinkedIn Learning, aimed at individuals (but through company paid plans) introduced a chatbot experience that offers both real-time advice and tailored content recommendations all personalized based on job title, career goal, and the skills. Currently, it's still in beta, but you can see a preview here:
Can this really be effective and go in depth? This is the main question we need to pose ourselves, being able to assess critically everything we see and not just look at the โshiny objectsโ.
This also made me think about the broader picture. Does this ring a bell for ChatGPTโs โdeathโ?
Despite its impressive capabilities, its prominence may wane with the rise of embedded AI solutions in frequently-used tools. Integrated AI provides users with direct and seamless assistance, reducing the appeal of external platforms like ChatGPT. With extensive datasets at their disposal, major companies like LinkedIn and Google could potentially develop AI functionalities that match or even surpass what ChatGPT offers.
Yes, more data on AI-Impactโฆand Skills Matrix
Itโs becoming a little bit of a nuisance to keep hearing every day about the impact of AI. That said, weโre starting to turn our heads towards a bit more concrete numbers than magnificent very generic percentages, much like the one below that estimates potential time-savings for a variety of tasks like language translation, text analysis and more creative / complex ones like โidea generationโ and โcode debuggingโ.
Another interesting chart I found this week is simple, but one that I would expect to be coming up in many powerpoints around the world (especially for 2024): a Skill matrix. By deconstructing the different roles by type of activities and technologies involved, this is the first step to a) have a correct mapping of whoโs doing what (think about: job rotation, upskilling, etc (I recommend going back to my article on โRole vs Skills - which provided also a super interesting academic research on the topic) b) understand if there is potential for introducing AI and therefore for impact.
Can ChatGPT do Academic Peer-Reviews?
A recent study from Stanford students tried to get ChatGPT to see how well it could do โpeer-reviewsโ versus humans. Results: not surprisingly, itโs fast and can help with editing, small comments, but is often too generic and lacks depth. Letโs always have in mind that weโre talking about a โword-predictionโ software at the end of the day, and that this will lack by default of innovation/critical thinking, and most of all will be as good as the data it has. So it should have very topic-specific instances to run on, and be always more integrated with humans-in-the-loop versus being seen as a complete substitute/oracle.
Trending Tools
๐ฌย TalkNotes- Turn your thoughts into actionable notes, fast (link)
๐ฃ๏ธ Chatcare- Reduce your customer support volume by 60% (link)
๐งพย Airparser- Data extraction powered by GPT-4 (link)
๐ช Framer AI- Generate a website in minutes from prompts (link)
โก๏ธ Notion AI- Your notes, on steroids. Access the limitless power of AI, right inside Notion (link)
๐ฑ Synthesia- Create professional videos without mics, cameras, or actors using an AI-generated character (link)