Welcome to episode 132 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack a November 11 article by Wharton professor and AI expert Ethan Mollick entitled "Giving your AI a Job Interview."

This episode examines the limitations of standardized AI benchmarks, noting that these tests are often flawed, easily gamed, and fail to measure practical skills required for business or analytical tasks.

Although individual users may rely on idiosyncratic, subjective tests to discern an AI's unique operational style, organizations must adopt a more systematic strategy for model selection.

Mollick advocates for treating the process like a detailed job interview that employs expert assessors and rigorous, real-world tasks relevant to the company's needs. This focused testing is essential because different models possess a "Jagged Frontier" of varied abilities, performing distinctively across specific professional tasks, such as finance or software development.

Furthermore, models display fundamental, consistent differences in their judgment and risk-taking attitudes, which organizations must understand before deploying an AI to advise thousands of critical decisions.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> View the original Mollick article: https://tinyurl.com/z4w29ect

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

>> Join the LinkedIn group Technical Writing Success: https://tinyurl.com/mr28u7td

>> Subscribe to the Technical Writing Success podcast: https://tinyurl.com/uu9hpyzt