Happy Monday!

In todays scoop 🍨 

• 🤖 Meet Your New Talent Scout

• 🪶 Sorry Shakespeare, AI is Coming For Your Sonnets

• ⚡️ AI's Insatiable Appetite

• 🔧 3 Trending AI Tools

🤖 Meet Your New Talent Scout

AI recruiters are becoming the new gatekeepers of your dream job. And they're not just scheduling interviews anymore – they're conducting them.

Ever had a job interview where you wished you could just hang up? Well, that's exactly what graphic designer Paloma Canseco did when she realized she didn’t want to spend any more time being interviewed by an AI.

The New Face (or Voice) of HR

Chipotle just introduced their AI recruiter with possibly the most on-brand name ever: "Ava Cado" 🥑 (Someone in marketing deserves a raise for that one). 

This digital HR whiz promises to slice hiring time by 75%, proving that even in recruitment, AI is spreading faster than guac on a burrito🌯 

But Chipotle isn't alone in this AI hiring spree. The tech is already being used by corporate giants like:

• McDonald's (McBot, anyone?)

• Amazon (Prime delivery of job offers?)

• General Motors (Auto-mated hiring, get it?)

The Good, The Bad, and The Algorithmic

What's to Love:

• No more waiting days for interview scheduling (Pfizer cut their 7-day wait to 5 minutes)

• You might actually get a shot if your resume isn't picture-perfect

• The AI never has a bad day or picks favorites because someone brought them coffee

The Plot Twists:

• Some AI systems analyze everything from your facial expressions to your "perceived enthusiasm" (HireVue has been doing this since 2014)

• That nervous tick you have? Yeah, the AI noticed that too 😬

• Non-native English speakers might face extra hurdles due to misunderstandings

The Future Is... Already Here?

According to recruitment expert Brent Orsuga, this isn't some far-off Black Mirror episode – it's "months away at best" from becoming the norm.

By 2025, talking to AI recruiters could be as common as pretending to read the terms and conditions.

The Bottom Line

Whether you love it or hate it, AI recruiters are here to stay. So the next time you're in a job interview and the recruiter seems a bit robotic, well... you might be onto something 🤖 

Just remember: if you're thinking of gluing googly eyes to your webcam to improve your AI interview score (yes, people actually tried this), maybe reconsider your life choices. Or at least patent the idea first 👀

⚡️AI's Insatiable Appetite 

Imagine throwing a party and inviting all your friends 🎉 only to blow the power grid and leave the whole neighborhood in darkness. Well, that's basically what's happening with AI right now, but on a much bigger scale.

Did anyone say digital energy crisis?

By 2027, AI servers could be guzzling down 500 terawatt-hours of electricity. That's enough juice to power 46 million homes! And get this – nearly half of AI data centers might not have enough power to keep the lights on.

Thinking Harder = Burning Brighter

• One AI-powered search = 100x more energy than a regular search

• Training a single AI model = powering 20,000 homes for six months

• Data centers already gulp down more electricity than some small countries

The Big Tech Power Move (Literally)

The tech giants aren't just sitting around waiting for the lights to go out. They're making some wild moves:

• 🏭 Microsoft's playing SimCity with Three Mile Island (yes, THAT Three Mile Island)

• 💰️ Sam Altman dropped $375M on fusion power (casual)

• ☢️ Amazon's trying to hook up with nuclear reactors like they're on Tinder

The Plot Twist

Regular folks are catching strays from this power party. Some regions are already seeing electric bills jump up to 20% higher. Why? Because somebody's gotta pay for all those fancy new power lines and infrastructure upgrades (spoiler: it's us).

What's Next?

The industry's got some tricks up its sleeve:

• Edge computing (aka processing data closer to home)

• Hyperconverged infrastructure (fancy speak for more efficient data centers)

• Moving to colder regions (turns out, computers like the cold too)

But unless we figure this out quick, we might need to start putting our AI on a diet. Because right now, these algorithms are eating electricity like they're at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Who knew AI would end up having such expensive taste? ⚡

🪶Sorry Shakespeare, AI is Coming For Your Sonnets

In a plot twist that would make even the Bard himself drop his quill, it turns out people actually prefer AI-written poetry to Shakespeare's legendary verses.

Yes, you read that right – ChatGPT is out here making Shakespeare look like a rookie at the poetry slam 📜

"To Bot or Not to Bot?" - That Was The Question 🎭

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh decided to stir up some drama in the literary world with an experiment that would make English teachers everywhere clutch their leather-bound anthologies in horror 📕 

They had AI go head-to-head with some of history's greatest poets, including Big Will himself, Emily Dickinson, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

The results? Let's just say Shakespeare's ghost might want to sign up for a creative writing workshop.

The Breakdown📊

• Participants could only correctly identify the real human-written poems 46% of the time (worse than a coin flip, folks!)

• All five of the highest-rated poems in the study were written by AI

• AI  swept the scoreboard across multiple categories including rhythm, beauty, and overall quality

• Meanwhile, Shakespeare's Sonnet 31 and Chaucer's "Rondel of Merciless Beauty" were among the lowest-rated poems (oof)

Is AI Winning The Poetry Game? 🤔

Here's the real kicker: It's not because AI is more creative or profound. It's because AI keeps things... simple. Like that friend who always explains the movie plot to everyone else, AI poems are just easier to understand.

Plot Twist: The Human Bias is Real 🎭

Here's where it gets interesting: When people were told upfront that a poem was written by AI, they suddenly rated it lower.

Classic human behavior – we're basically the literary version of wine snobs who rate the same wine differently based on the price tag 🍷

What Does This Mean For The Future? 🔮

AI might be winning the poetry popularity contest, but it's not exactly writing the next "Hamlet." It's more like the CliffsNotes version of profound literature – great for a quick fix, but probably won't inspire the next generation of English majors.

The key difference? AI poems are like fast food – satisfying for a quick bite, but you probably won't be thinking about them years later. Shakespeare's works are more like a fine dining experience – they require time, attention, and maybe a dictionary, but they'll stick with you forever.

PS: If you enjoyed this newsletter, share it with your literary friends. Bonus points if you can convince them it was written by Shakespeare's ghost 👻

🔧3 Trending AI Tools

• ElevenLabs Projects - Structure, edit, and generate long-form audio

• Guidde - Create how to guides & video documentation

• Kling AI - Creative studio, producing realistic visuals with advanced text comprehension, intricate details, and diverse styles.

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