Insufficient “processing power” is the reason why many improvements I had requested are not viable.

1. Why wouldn’t LinkedIn Recruiter search for a Boolean of school names, while LinkedIn.com can?

2. I cannot see an attached resume in Recruiter:

Low liquidity?

3. The “Selection or Boolean” fields are confusing. I would separate them – give the user a choice of either Boolean or selections. Imagine searching for “current or past title” for this; I don’t think the UI should allow it:

Have you looked at the hidden LinkedIn operators yet? They can do wonders; I wish that would be in the UI. 😊

Oh yes, it does.

Check out our latest class on LinkedIn Recruiter, incorporating all the feedback I got from LinkedIn Engineering (thanks, Dan!)

I am fascinated by Midjourney’s /describe command – kudos to its creators! MJ generates beauty out of very little.

In addition to transforming the input, the revealed prompts teach AI artists the “true” language. It was interesting to see words repeated, hashtags, and styles. And if you like a style you can carry it on with other scenes.

Below you will find three pairs of input and output images. I have noticed that MJ does text recognition as well, so it does in the first example.

silhouette of a man with a pipe and hat / private investigator

Please follow my AI art at The Prompter; thanks!

Midjourney has just released an amazing feature, invoked by the command /describe. You can upload an image and get four sample prompts to draw in Midjourney. This is “image-to-text” that creates only remote likeness to the subject. (I suppose photos of famous people and such may be better replicated). Instead, it creates four fantasies. Of course, you can edit the prompts as you wish.

Here is an example. I uploaded the above plain “Boolean” image, then ran the output through Midjourney. The results are interesting:

This feature adds a new layer of creativity. It also reveals some prompt secrets.

See (and hopefully like) my AI art at https://www.facebook.com/aibraingain/.

I appreciate the “code red” that Google had experienced seeing ChatGPT success. However, Bard, Google’s response to AI, is quite underwhelming. Google should have given it time and effort to mature, I think.

The web is full of hilarious dialogs with Bard like

ChatGPT and Bing Chat seem to know more about Google than (its own) Bart. This is ridiculous!

At the same time, I do not feel like there is a solution of LLMs combined with web search yet. Due to Bing Chat’s hallucinations, I mostly Google, not Bing Chat, for recent news and facts. For text editing, research questions, anything language, my choice is ChatGPT and Grammarly. That said, Bing Chat is improving.

Exiting times!

The image above is made with Midjourney; I generate prompts with ChatGPT. Please see my portfolio at the Facebook page The Prompter.

[ image generated with #midjourney. I do not mean that Bing is like a monkey, it is just an expression. See my portfolio on FB. ]

As we have all experienced, Bing Chat is “stubborn” and “lazy” (so is ChatGPT). After Bing’s volatile and “emotional” first day, it was told to say “no” more often than not.

If Bing responds to you with its infamous “I am an AI model” or any other objection, do not believe it until you have tried. There are things to do:

1. Start a new chat and repeat the prompt – you might get lucky.
2. Rephrase the prompt. (Some say saying “please” also helps!)
3. Slowly talk Bing into doing the task it had rejected by taking small steps.

Here is an example of #3. I got a test list of LinkedIn profile URLs and asked Bing to generate a table based on them. It refused, telling me it has no access to the pages – only to search results and its training data.

I repeated the request with only one URL and got the beginning of the table – which Bing gladly generated. Then I asked to add one more URL, three more, and it worked. The result is scraped profiles for a list of LinkedIn URLs, where, unlike with SalesQL (which is a great contact finder and scraper), you do not need to log in.

I do not know how scalable this is, but perhaps we can “softly” teach Bing to create massive scrapes of profile lists. That allows to sort and filter by values unavailable on LinkedIn.

Here is another application: I have a list of candidates and want to know which ones work at midsize companies. I feed Bing a list of companies, starting with one, and increasing the number of fields by which I want to sort. Bing gets drawn into the task.

Bing Chat and ChatGPT plug-ins are promising aids in scraping public pages and even cross-referencing information on different sites.

As a reminder, registration is open for

Six-Day Sourcing Bootcamp with Irina Shamaeva,

where I will cover AI in recruitment as well all tools, techniques, and strategies relevant to sourcing. April 4-April 13, 2023. Seating is limited.

What March 2023 participants have said:

GPT-4 tells fewer lies. For example, it correctly lists Google search operators. What I find most interesting though at the first glance is its exceptional ability to interpret images based on URLs. There is no restriction for the creation time. I gave it the image above and it produced a perfect output:

I would do face recognition, too, and tell you the person’s bio – try it on someone’s photo.

OK, it was wishful thinking for now! After a few colleagues’ comments and a few more tests, I realize that it is hallucinating based on the image URL. So what does multi-modal mean?

P.S. Please follow my Midjourney AI Art at my new page The Prompter. I use a ChatGPT-based prompt generator. 🙂

Google has been rolling out continuous scrolling, and it’s a challenge. Seeing all of your results now requires a lot of scrolling down and pressing the “more results” button.

There is a preference, but it does not influence Google’s behavior (at least for me):

The change is unfortunate. Chrome extensions and other tools will break over the scrolling format.

However, there is a workaround. Add &start=<any number> to the end of your search URL, and the familiar view with numbered pages comes back. Following the link, you will arrive at the second page and then all tools, including Instant Data Scraper, will behave again.

So, to view or collect all results:

1. Get results from the first page
2. Use &start=1 to get to the second and following pages.

Note that the “include omitted results” option is now hard to reach:

Therefore, remember to add &filter=0 to your search URL to get more results from the same sites.

Join us at the renewed Boolean Strings Basics & Beyond on March 1-2, 2023. We will cover principles that are staying and new developments that change the best ways to Google, like the one above, as well as touch on Google vs. ChatGPT competition.

As a reminder, I am holding a Six-Day Sourcing Bootcamp with Irina Shamaeva March 7-16. I will cover all things sourcing in this course. It is filling up, so if you are interested, I recommend signing up.

My recent LinkedIn poll, “Recruiters: are you already using #ChatGPT in your work to write emails to prospects and other content?” shows an impressive rate of acceptance and interest in ChatGPT.

Our Facebook group ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, Prompts, Insights for Recruitment amassed 5.6K+ members in no time; I have never seen such growth. The LinkedIn group with the same name is exploding as well.

Attitudes vary a lot, though. Answering “What is your interest in ChatGPT?” someone joining the FB group said, “Know thine enemy.” (lol)

Some skepticism arises from unimpressive initial uses.

• If you tried ChatGPT and it produced a generic, mediocre piece of writing, you may have voted “It is not good enough” in the poll. But rewriting your prompt and giving it additional direction will help!
• ChatGPT sometimes states the wrong facts. It is not a good reason to stay away from it! But remember to verify its output.

On the other hand, some enthusiasts believe they will now automate any writing. Or they worry about their jobs. Not so fast! If you spend at least a few hours with ChatGPT, you will learn that getting the desirable, well-written piece requires a lot of effort, guesswork, testing, and (yes) Googling. Just as there are no useful Boolean Builders, there is a limit to lists of universal ChatGPT recipes anyone can create. Using ChatGPT is more of “know-how.”

We have pushed ChatGPT’s tires a bit, and I will be sharing what I have learned in a webinar. The proceeds will go to a good cause.

Pease join me at a 90-minute webinar Revolutionizing Recruitment with ChatGPT and AI (Ukraine Benefit) on Wednesday, February 15th! Some of the topics I will cover are:

• Introduction to ChatGPT and its capabilities
• ChatGPT vs. Google
• How ChatGPT can be used to streamline and enhance various aspects of the recruitment process
  • Research the market
  • Create Boolean Strings
  • Manipulate text data
  • Craft targeted LinkedIn messages and emails to passive candidates
  • Improve your writing
  • Generate interview questions and assessment tests
• Brainstorm with ChatGPT
• ChatGPT for everyday use
• Limitations and how to overcome them
• Competing landscape
• Image AI
• Q&A session

Welcome to the new Artificial Intelligence world that has rapidly arrived!

ChatGPT has no manual! We are equally ignorant at the start. I am OK with it because I am one of those who never read the instructions (lol).

An often-missed so far angle to discuss #ChatGPT is to have a dialog with ChatGPT without an intention to create content (in whatever format). The purpose can be decision-making, brainstorming for work and personal goals, or fast fact-learning, to sound intelligent on a date or at a party with experts or quickly start sourcing.

Same as with any content creation, you can combine conversations with assigning a role to ChatGPT. (You’ve seen those lists.) This adds a new dimension to the output. Here are some excellent recruiting-related A.I. Dialog examples on our new rapidly expanding Facebook Group #ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, Prompts, Insights for Recruitment.

As you know, with any request lacking detail, ChatGPT starts with something generic and wordy. Do not be discouraged! You have to be strict and insistent on concrete responses that match your request. I think I am acquiring the skill. 🙂 Observations I will be sharing on the blog, new newsletter, and new group, and eventually, in a class, come from my limited but growing experience.

These bits stand out:

• A challenge is that ChatGPT has a short memory, so putting together as much info as possible upfront is a good idea.
• ChatGPT is especially good at generating lists of possible solutions for a problem. You can continue the dialog by exploring each appealing option and making your request more specific based on its suggestions.
• Do not make your prompts suggestive of an answer. It may lead the Intelligence to try and please you by lying.
• You can make ChatGPT yours if you start the dialogs, understand what to expect, and share and digest what others have learned. Collective Learning is an essential part of it.

It’s hard not to imagine the tool’s “personality.” I often see ChatGPT as forgetful, lazy, and stubbornly protecting the “gold” it hides somewhere deep.  Think of a fairy tale where a magic phrase opens the treasure guarded by a dragon, and you are the Hero. The tool is an invitation to be creative, imaginative, observant, intuitive, resourceful, and “digitally manipulative” in a good sense. These are keys to the new skill acquisition. And just like swimming or sourcing, learning is inseparable from practice.

Are our jobs in danger? Are you serious? It is a new human craft, and few will master it (as with any art). I read somewhere an analogy that photography did not destroy paintings. A popular tweet reads: A.I. will not replace you. A person using A.I. will.

My colleagues and I are interested due to the possibilities and because we already have the “studying software behavior” curiosity, skills, and experience, after exploring Google’s and LinkedIn’s algorithms in-depth over the years. GPT-3, ChatGPT is quite a new kid on the block! It has trivial stuff on the surface and gold to dig out with new skills.

We are preparing a February webinar to summarize the useful bits of the #AI Revolution for busy Recruiters. Stay tuned by joining the FB communities and following our schedule. Once delivered, classes show up in the Training Library. The 11K+-strong Boolean Strings FB Group will stay on sourcing topics, and AI discussions are channeled to the new group.

P.S. My friends and Facebook followers know that I have also been spending time with Midjourney for image creation for enjoyment.

Sadly, drawing is not of my many talents. But creating unique prompts, some with ChatGPT (a prompt for a prompt!) switches the creativity into the area where I am capable and learning. Think about such possibilities!

I will hopefully figure out a separate channel for my #A.I. galleries. Since I haven’t yet, I want to share a recent creation, a Fruit-Themed Gift: