Given how it’s owned by Microsoft, it’s no surprise to see or hear of LinkedIn looking to add more AI elements into its platform, with Microsoft now aiming to integrate ChatGPT’s back-end into virtually all of its apps and functions. That’ll allow LinkedIn to provide users with new options for creating their LinkedIn profiles, while it’s also adding AI-generated job descriptions, along with new educational opportunities into AI tech, through LinkedIn Learning.
Summarized by AI
To start, LinkedIn’s adding a new GPT-powered tool that’ll provide personalized writing suggestions for creating your LinkedIn profile. A new feature within LinkedIn Premium will be the option to generate a headline or ‘About’ summary for your LinkedIn presence. So, here’s how it works:
Tap on the ‘Start’ button, select what you want it to create, and the system will come up with your LinkedIn profile summary, based on your information, then samples from millions of user entries. The system will use OpenAI’s GPT models to generate these new summaries, which could make it easier to put together a good representation of your skills and experience without you having to come up with a creative way to stand out.
Likewise, LinkedIn summaries could all start to look much the same. The risk with this is that everything will eventually start feeling very similar, and as more content is generated by AI over time and then fed into these tools to generate even more content, everything could eventually seem like a copy of a copy, which might be one copy too much. In short, your content, regardless of how original it might be, might come off as a discounted version of someone else’s.
We’re not quite at that level yet, and excitement is a bit high for GPT’s latest model, but there is a risk that automated material will be restricted by what’s come before, which will make originality more attention-grabbing. In that context, maybe you’re better off writing your own LinkedIn summary – but at the same time, many people do encounter challenges coming up with good LinkedIn profile content, and this could prove to be a valuable addition, at least in that respect.
LinkedIn’s also testing a new AI-powered job description tool, which will make it faster and easier to write job descriptions. These new AI-generated descriptions will include key skills to round out the listing, while users can also be able to add more specific skills and traits, based on their existing employee profiles or those in your network, further customizing the overview.
Lastly, LinkedIn is also adding new LinkedIn Learning courses to help users hone their AI skills. These AI courses will be available for free until June 15th. The new courses include several that are specific to generative AI, which could help you become a leader in this fast-evolving space, enhancing your value to potential employees.
The Wrap
It’s still too early for anyone to fully comprehend the implications of these new tools, and what they would mean for business productivity. The gradual expansion of generative AI elements will see more people using such devices moving forward, which will eventually lead to a significant evolution in how many sectors operate. As such, it’s worth getting ahead of the wave, and ensuring that you understand as much as possible about how systems like these work. These new LinkedIn courses could be helpful in that respect.
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