Being a company owned by Microsoft, LinkedIn is making use of all the investments that the parent company has made in OpenAI to implement solutions based on this technology within its products.
According to Erran Berger, vice president of product engineering at LinkedIn, the chatbot will work with the GPT-4 model, which is the most advanced system developed by Sam Altman’s company.
Berger noted that during the implementation of the tool, one of the main challenges they had was the implementation of resources to reduce latency and deliver an agile experience.
“When you have these conversational experiences, sometimes it’s almost like a search, that is, you expect it to be instantaneous. That’s why we had to develop real platform capabilities to make it possible,” she commented in an interview.
Other functions, in addition to job searching, are the ability to provide summaries of publications in the main user interface, making interaction with the platform easier.
How does LinkedIn AI work?
To use the tool, users must select a job offer and ask questions such as “am I a good candidate for this job?” The AI will then analyze the candidate’s profile information to understand their work experience and determine if they have what it takes for that job.
Once you have completed this process, the chatbot will also point out some gaps in the person’s experience that could hurt their job application and recommendations on how to address that aspect to improve their profile.
A couple of weeks ago, LinkedIn announced nearly 700 layoffs in the organization and a good portion came from the engineering team; However, with these new functions they are trying to accelerate revenue growth in the midst of a complex context, since they have been decelerating for approximately two years.