Alexa, Get Me Some Candidates! Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Recruiting

AI is the new new thing in recruiting. Products like Mya claim to use AI and promise to revolutionize recruiting. As usual, the hype far exceeds the reality, since true AI means having a flexible, general-purpose intelligence of the type which allows an individual to learn to complete a vast range of tasks. Today we have products that have mastered individual tasks, like IBM’s Deep Blue that plays chess better than even the best humans, and Watson, that beat the champions on Jeopardy. But such programs are good at just one particular task, and none has the broad intelligence that characterizes humans. No combination of hardware and software available today can learn new things the way even a small child can.