😺 How to ace interviews with AI

PLUS: helping mute people communicate

Welcome, humans.

Shoutout to all the (Founding) Fathers of AI! You gave us kids the best gift of all: no writing assignments ever again. 📚️

Here’s what’s going on in AI today:

Meta announces speech model that can generalize speech tasks.
Both employers and applicants are leaning on AI in hiring.
92% of GitHub devs are using AI for projects.
Microsoft released a Bing Chat widget for iOS.

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Meta’s New Revolutionary Speech Model 🗣

Call Meta a five-star Michelin restaurant, ‘cause they just keep delivering the goods.

This time, it’s a speech AI named “Voicebox,” which uses an innovative approach called Flow Matching to perform audio tasks in ways it was never designed to.

Here’s what we mean:

text input (“welcome, humans”) + reference audio (Taylor Swift melody) = Taylor Swift singing “welcome, humans”.

Basically, mix any text with any audio (or omit features) to create any linguistic combination. Here are some of the amazing possibilities:

Create audio in the unique voice of those who are unable to speak.
Transform audio from English to Spanish while preserving the same voice.
Remove background noise or unnecessary words from any audio clip.

And here’s one not-so-amazing application: indistinguishable deepfakes of global leaders threatening nuclear attacks. Well, that escalated quickly.

For this reason, Meta isn’t sharing the Voicebox model or code with the public just yet.

Why it matters: The possibilities are endless. Personalized voice assistants. Content localization. Authentic voiceovers. Recordings free of background noise.

We anticipate companies to dish out large tips once this technology hits the market!

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AI Is Taking Over In Hiring (on both sides) 🤝

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Employers have been using AI to sort through heaps of (nearly identical) resumes for years. This is despite only 28% of Americans supporting AI scanning job applications.

But oh, how the turntables! Now, it’s job seekers capitalizing on AI more than ever to gain an upper hand in the recruitment process, using:

AI interview coaches for personalized interview questions and corresponding feedback.
ChatGPT to optimize resumes & cover letters to perfection.
- We recommend this three-step prompt to nail any cover letter for any job.

OH, and since employers are use AI to filter candidates by using keywords, ChatGPT can actually help candidates sneak past preliminary screening rounds. AI beats AI!

Why it matters: Both parties (recruiters & candidates) are leveraging AI, yet each expects the other to keep it real. We’re not sure how hiring evolves from here, but it’s increasingly about outsmarting the system!

Around the Horn 🦄

A Stanford paper found that foundational models from OpenAI and Google should be able to comply with the EU AI Act.
How AI Is Helping Architects Change Workplace Design (NYT).
LLM Fine Tuning Guide for Enterprises in 2023 (AI Multiple).
92% of Github developers surveyed use AI coding tools at work and for external projects.
LLMs can label datasets 20x faster and 7x cheaper than human annotators.

Treats To Try 🍿

Fix My Code with AI optimizes your code for more accessible user experiences.
TalkBerry provides actionable feedback from mock job interviews.
Vercel released an open-source AI chatbot template based on Next.js.
Microsoft released a Bing Chat widget that you can add on iOS.
Modl AI helps game developers release bots to detect glitches and bugs in their games.

We curated the 27 tools you need for work in our “Top Tools For Business”!