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Emotion Recognition Systems Could Be Used In Job Interviews (techtarget.com)
dcblogs writes:
Emotion recognition software identifies micro-expressions through video analysis. These are expressions that may be as fast as 1/25 of a second and invisible to the human eye, but a close analysis of video can detect them. These systems are being used in marketing research, but some employers may be interested in using them to assess job candidates.
Vendors claim these systems can be used to develop a personality profile and discover a good cultural fit. The technology raises concerns, illustrated earlier this year who showed that face-reading technology could use photographs to determine sexual orientation with a high degree of accuracy.
One company has already added face recognition into their iPad-based time clock, which the company's CEO thinks could be adapted to also detect an employee's mood when they're clocking out. Yet even he has his reservations. While he thinks it could provide more accurate feedback from employees, he also admits that "There's something very Big Brother about it."
Vendors claim these systems can be used to develop a personality profile and discover a good cultural fit. The technology raises concerns, illustrated earlier this year who showed that face-reading technology could use photographs to determine sexual orientation with a high degree of accuracy.
One company has already added face recognition into their iPad-based time clock, which the company's CEO thinks could be adapted to also detect an employee's mood when they're clocking out. Yet even he has his reservations. While he thinks it could provide more accurate feedback from employees, he also admits that "There's something very Big Brother about it."
A real use for those Botox injections.
One thing psychopaths are great at, is simulating emotions. The rest of us get nervous and stumble under certain pressures. Not psychopaths. They will have an even greater advantage if such software is utilized for recruiting.
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Interviewer: You are in a desert. You: Ok. Interviewer: Bill Gates is also there. He's torturing a little turtle. You: Ok. Interviewer: What do you do? You: I help Bill Gates torture the turtle. Interviewer: Welcome to Microsoft!
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
"One company has already added face recognition into their iPad-based time clock, which the company's CEO thinks could be adapted to also detect an employee's mood when they're clocking out"
Shouldn't they be a bit more concerned about their mood while clocking in?
Oh, so close! The correct answer was "roll onto your back and let Bill torture you when he's ready"
"You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you..."
There used to be a box, sold sometimes in kit form, that detected micro-tremors in your voice. Some believe that the microtremors, mostly sub-audible, were a sign of deception. There were phone-attachments for them, too. It didn't even take a computer to detect these tremors, or for the device to be thought of as a lie detector.
This was thirty years ago. This is nothing new. Facial recognition is the same way-- finding twitching muscles could be a toothache or a rebuke. Pick one.
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Sound's like a management wet dream. I have a better idea, we put management through one of these detectors every morning. If their attitude isn't one of helpfulness to employees, they get sent home with no pay for the day. We'll test them regularly through the day as well just to make sure the attitude is constant.
You mean 1984 is here?
Why bother when you can buy a prospective candidate's browser history, and typify him/her/whatever against various desirable/undesirable profiles/? Why not have a bot do it and save yourself time?
"Siri/Cortana/Alexa, dig up the dirt on social security #504-22-5555. Map profile against StockDesirable#11442. Grade. Display."
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
Hire-Vue's schtick seems to be that their mysterious proprietary algorithm does magical "machine learning" analysis of your face and voice in the video answers it took, then it generates a magical "insight score" to tell the HR people whether or not you suck, along with how "confident" and "enthusiastic" and who knows how many other attributes Hire-Vue thinks it can detect (seems to also be special proprietary information, so I don't even really know what it was looking for.) I expect most people get marked down for not making "eye contact" with the webcam (rather than looking at the "person" - i.e. your own live video - on the screen like a normal human being.)
I will say that the process was more fun than I expected, but I'm not at all confident that Hire-Vue's robot won't sabotage my attempt to find gainful employment.
Also note that this format just coincidentally makes it easy to conveniently get an idea of whether you're "old", what your racial background and gender may be, etc., so if they are so inclined, HR can conveniently throw out your application if there's something there that they don't feel like talking to.
It's only been a week, so no idea yet how it went. Job-hunting these days is itself one of the worst jobs right now.
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I may only be 50 (or will be the 20th of next month), but even I can remember when the biggest qualifications for getting hired were a desire to work and either an aptitude for the job or willingness to be quickly trained and brought up to speed for the tasks.
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Candidate 1: Nervous
Candidate 2: Nervous
Candidate 3: Nervous
Candidate 4: Calm, but high
Table-ized A.I.
Seriously, make it easier to get people hired not harder.
I think this shit is hilarious. It's almost like a contest how much humiliating bullshit will people go through to work at these so-called "prestigious" companies.
Personally I would not want to be surrounded by people who eagerly pass these "tests", and I'm okay with the fact that these jobs are not for me.
One more way for me to filter out bad potential employers.
Different people express emotions differently. That's why it's so hard to guess what someone is feeling.
For example, for some people, pausing before responding to a question means they don't know the answer, for others, it means that the person is carefully considering the nuances of a response.
In order to properly understand expressions, context is key. This is true of understanding spoken language as well. Computers are getting pretty good at understanding spoken language, but certainly not better than humans themselves. My guess is that this will be true of understanding emotions for some time.
All this leads me to believe that this is, at least in part, marketing hype.