Kellogg School of Management, Stanford GSB, INSEAD, Chicago Booth and London Business School are among the more than 100 institutes and universities using VMock that uses machine learning, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide feedback on MBA students’ resumes. The SMART Coaching and Careers platform was co-founded by Salil and Kiran Pande in 2009.

The advantage for the students seeking jobs in other countries is that the software provides details about the jobs available in various cities and countries across the world.

The VMock tool enables students to get an instant feedback on the format, word choice and presentation of their resumes. For the careers team at the schools, it speeds up the process of reviewing the students’ resumes.

GoinGlobal is a career service used by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. It “grassroots intelligence” through a team of in-country researchers. They monitor and update the career information and resources that gets delivered to the customers.

Ability to provide city-specific career and employment information is an advantage with this platform which boats of more than 450,000 corporate profiles in as many as 190 countries. It also features more than 16 million internship and job opportunities from around the world.

The advantage for the students seeking jobs in other countries is that the software provides details about the jobs available in various cities and countries across the world.

IMD Business School holds a video interview with admitted MBA students in which questions are asked about the reasons for enrolling and career goals. Subsequently, the videos are passed on to IMD alumni who are recruiters at large companies. They then review the videos and provide the students with feedback.

The Switzerland-based school also assists students through a course to prepare themselves for technology in the shape of more video content and artificial intelligence (AI) bots in job interviews.

Companies like Goldman Sachs, no longer hold on-campus interviews. Instead, the students are asked to submit a pre-recorded video to apply for a job. They are asked to speak about how their past experiences and skills could help them in the new role and the like.

However, software and technical innovations would not take away the need for students to seek advice from career advisors and teams in the schools. MIT Sloan School of Management, for instance, lays stress on student participation in large group workshops, resume and cover letter reviews and mock job interviews.(Image Source:Pixabay.com)

Playing on the fears of the people of a takeover by Artificial Intelligence (AI), the reports claimed that the shut down happened after researchers found some chatbots (programs which have short, text-based conversations with humans or other bots) developing their own language that could not be understood by humans.

However, AI researchers have dismissed such reports as “clickbaity and irresponsible.”

Dhruv Batra, Visiting Researcher at Facebook AI Research, in a Facebook post said, “I have just returned from CVPR (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition at Hawaii July 21-26, 2017) to find my FB/Twitter feed blown up with articles describing apocalyptic doomsday scenarios, with Facebook researchers unplugging AI agents that invented their own language.

“I do not want to link to specific articles or provide specific responses for fear of continuing this cycle of quotes taken out of context, but I find such coverage clickbaity and irresponsible,” he added.

Batra goes on to explain that while the idea of AI agents inventing their own language may sound alarming/unexpected to people outside the field, it is a well-established sub-field of AI, with publications dating back decades.

“Simply put, agents in environments attempting to solve a task will often find unintuitive ways to maximize reward. Analyzing the reward function and changing the parameters of an experiment is NOT the same as “unplugging” or “shutting down AI”. If that were the case, every AI researcher has been “shutting down AI” every time they kill a job on a machine,” he explained.

Batra also asked everyone to read the actual research paper or the overview blog post from FAIR (Facebook AI Research Lab): https://code.facebook.com/…/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bo…/

The entire controversy erupted after Facebook published an academic paper in June about a scientific experiment in which researchers got two artificial agents to negotiate with each other in chat messages after being shown conversations of humans negotiating. The agents’ improvement gradually performed through trial and error.

While the chatbots conversation did deviate from correct English, the purpose of the research was to make the agents negotiate effectively. The researchers comprising Mike Lewis, Denis Yarats, Yann Dauphin, Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra of Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research group noted that the chatbots even figured out how to pretend to be interested in something they didn’t actually want, only to later ‘compromise’ by conceding it.

Researchers at Alphabet and Elon Musk-backed OpenAI have also dismissed fears about AI. Researchers using AI have found the bots reworking the language to compute a task. Google, in a blog post, said its translation software had behaved in a similar fashion during development. “The network must be encoding something about the semantics of the sentence,” it said.

Similarly, Wired quoted a researcher at OpenAI working on a system in which AIs invent their own language, improving their ability to process information quickly and thus tackle difficult problems more effectively.

A verbal scrap over the potential dangers of AI between Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and technology entrepreneur Elon Musk had added to the controversy. Musk had tweeted that Zuckerberg had only “a limited understanding of AI”. Several other experts including Professor Stephen Hawking have raised fears that humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, could be superseded by AI.