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Survival of the Best Fit

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You don't need to be an engineer to question how technology is affecting our lives. The goal is not for everyone to be a data scientist or machine learning engineer, though the field can certainly use more diversity, but to have enough awareness to join the conversation and ask important questions. Machine learning (ML), is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with teaching computers how to make decisions by learning from large amounts of data. AI can be a powerful tool in helping make decisions fast, but its "automated" decision-making doesn't mean that it is always correct, objective, or fair. While Survival of the Best Fit demonstrates how automated decision making can be biased, modern Large Language Model (LLM) based tools can do more than just classify candidates as good and bad. They can summarize work your experience into a resume, generate realistic job descriptions, screen resumes, and even conduct initial interviews. These other tools are based on the sa

Survival of the Best Fit Understanding Algorithmic Bias Table of Contents Part 1: Behind the Technology Part 2: Fair Software Part 3: Steps Forward More Resources Part 1: Behind the Technology You don't need to be an engineer to question how technology is affecting our lives. The goal is not for everyone to be a data scientist or machine learning engineer, though the field can certainly use more diversity , but to have enough awareness to join the conversation and ask important questions. Machine learning (ML) , is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with teaching compute

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