What Comes Next: Country-Centric AI, Company-Centric AI and Copilots
"Explore the future of AI evolution: from foundational models like Amazon, Bard, and OpenAI to the next frontier - AI that learns your preferences deeply. These foundational models hint at what you desire, but the real innovation lies in tailored layers catering to specific styles and cultures. The question of ...
The 10X Developer: How Employees Could Take On More Even Easier
Explore the transformative power of machine learning and its impact on the future of work and economic productivity. Discover the potential for employees to take on more significant roles and responsibilities in a world where AI and automation are prevalent. Join us in contemplating the rise of the "10X Developer" ...
The Day That Transforms How We Measure Real Economic Growth
Exploring the Disconnect: GDP, Technology, and Economic Transformation | Delve into the evolving landscape where GDP struggles to capture the true essence of consumption. Discover how rapid technological advances challenge conventional economic measurements and unveil a promising outlook for productivity and abundance. Stay tuned for insights on the future of ...
Machine Learning Tools Ramping Up, So Why Are Companies Lagging On Adoption?
Explore the complex landscape of machine learning adoption, from the rapid advancement of foundational models to the game-changing NVIDIA H100 chip. Discover why some companies are hesitant to embrace machine learning despite cost reductions and powerful tools like Copilot ...
New AI Models Emerging Fast, But Who’s Driving Them?
Explore the fascinating journey of the AI evolution in our latest Tidbit! Recently we heard a Podcast conversation with the CEO of an investment management firm, who unveils the remarkable transformation of AI landscape through GPT-3. Discover jaw-dropping insights like how GPT-3's computing costs plummeted from a staggering $800 million ...
Three Hiring Scenarios To Plan For In A New Industrial Revolution
As we delve into the new Industrial Revolution we explore three potential hiring scenarios. What does the hiring environment look like in a revolution driven by machine learning models like GPT4/Copilot. Explore the possibilities of laying off lower tiers of technical talent, companies favoring machines over human skills, and over ...
Are We At The Dawn Of The New Industrial Revolution?
Unlocking the Potential of Machine Learning: Exploring the Parallels Between the Industrial Revolution and Programming. Discover how recent events indicate the emergence of a new industrial revolution driven by advancing technologies. Delve into the historical overproduction crisis and its parallels with today's abundance of technological advancements. Explore the impact of ...
ChatGPT Brings Excitement But Thin On Safety Guarantees
Discover the potential risks and safeguards surrounding ChatGPT and AI in general. Elon Musk warns of the absence of fail-safe measures and protection against malicious use. As unregulated advancements continue, the fear of intentional manipulation and harm arises. To mitigate this, a system must be developed to detect harmful activities ...
Guiding ChatGPT Becoming A Rare Talent All Its Own
Discover the power of ChatGPT as it goes beyond simple queries, requiring comprehensive information and follow-up questions for insightful responses. Learn how ChatGPT's answers can be refined through rephrasing and leveraging specific expertise, unlocking accurate and detailed insights. Explore how ChatGPT can provide assistance in various domains, offering improvement suggestions ...
Why Big-Time Programmers are Being Influenced by ChatGPT and More
Discover how AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot are revolutionizing the programming industry. Top programmers, including Andrej Karpathy, Tesla's Senior Director of AI for 5 years, are finding these tools highly useful, with it being said Copilot now influences up to 80% of Karpathy's code. Learn how incorporating these ...
Will Machine Learning Change How You Hire Going Forward?
This article delves into the latest advancements in AI technology, from image-based platforms such as DALL-E to the birth of ChatGPT and its impact on the industry. Explore the potential uses of ChatGPT in recruitment and hiring processes, and learn about the competition among big players like Google and Amazon ...
Battle Between AI Platforms For Your Loyalty About To Heat Up
"Discover the latest trends and advancements in AI platforms in our expert analysis at Roy Talman & Associates. Learn about the battle between AI platforms and their competition for your loyalty, and how this will impact the future of AI technology. Stay ahead of the curve with our insights on ...
Python Vs. R: The Battle Influenced By Machine Learning
"Discover the key differences between Python and R in the context of machine learning. Explore the strengths and weaknesses of each language and make an informed decision on which one to use. Read our expert analysis at Roy Talman & Associates." ...
The Truth Behind The U.S. Building New Chip Factories
This year may be remembered as the one when chipmakers decided to truly commit to manufacturing in the U.S., with companies like Intel, Samsung and TSMC announcing their intent to build factories here for the purpose of producing semiconductors. ...However, there is always a danger between potential and reality that ...
DALL-E, Copilot And The Deep Learning Models You Need To Know Now
One of the new deep learning models I’ve been fascinated by is called DALL-E, developed by OpenAI. This technology with roots in GPT-3 can generate digital images from your voice commands. For example, if I have a picture of myself on vacation and I’d like to add a funny hat ...
What To Do When Caught Between Legacy Systems And AI
At times, some companies can feel as though they are caught between the present day of preserving the legacy systems they have now – and the future when a transition into AI and machine learning will be fully realized. This state of limbo provides further pressure when employees who only ...
Luring Tech Talent Back Home Takes Sophistication, Not Sentiment.
As remote work shows no signs of slowing down in the technology space, several cities and states continue to explore all kinds of creative ways to lure more technical talent. One of the more unique approaches companies have taken is an outreach campaign to appeal to supremely talented technical workers ...
Companies Push Their Machine Learning Capabilities to the Max
Many of us remember early on in our careers when all files were flat files from a computer. Those, in time, gave way to databases and the idea of knowing how to use databases was paramount – ultimately, you couldn’t have a system without a database. Once again, we’re now ...
When On-Site Policy Causes Increased “Looking Around”
A friend of mine’s wife is a lawyer who works at a major university reviewing contracts. She figured she would likely finish her career working in that job. In the meantime, she and her husband got a house in Arizona. It wasn’t a problem with her job because she hadn’t ...
On-Site Policy Causes One Executive To Move. Domino To An Exodus?
We’ve used the phrase “The Great Reshuffling” in the past as we don’t feel it’s merely The Great Resignation we’re experiencing. The “deck” of what we’ve always known for traditional work and the way it’s done is being reshuffled. We’ve talked a lot about remote work and the impact that ...
Don’t Minimize The Pull For Getting Back Together
In the last couple of years, we’ve all heard a familiar refrain: “I miss being around people.” It’s grown louder as conditions for masking relax. This poses an interesting question for those who assume everyone wants to work remotely or even engage in a hybrid arrangement. Do they? Picture a ...
When More On-Site Work Strengthens Your Recruitment
As much as we’ve seen significant movement over the last couple of years from companies on whether or not to let workers go fully remote, an interesting shift is occurring. Some of those very same companies are changing their expectations, requiring employees to be in the office at least two ...
The Great Reshuffling to Florida and Texas
If there’s a giant sucking sound you hear coming from the Rust Belt in the northeast, it’s no coincidence. Key people are being drawn from this area if working remotely isn’t an option. As a result, many are exploring their options in a warmer climate to the south: Namely, Florida. ...
Where Is Machine Learning and AI Headed In 2022?
AI and machine learning evolved significantly in the past year, which begs the question: What’s next? Where are these technologies going and how will they further impact our way of life in a time that has been anything but predictable? ...
Where The Chips Fall: How Changes In Chip Making Can Impact So Many Of Us
When you think about it, the number of computer chips surrounding us is absolutely mind-boggling. We simply don’t realize how many things have chips in them or how many chips are in our devices. If you are staring at a giant computer screen, how many chips are in it? You ...
The Tug-Of-War Between Tomorrow’s AI and Yesterday’s Legacy Systems
For as long as people in any technology field can remember, there’s always been a sort of push and pull, back and forth between the latest technological innovation that may change the world as we know it and the legacy systems we have to preserve for a while longer. Is ...
Chicago Implores Top Tech Talent To Come Home. But Will Enough Of Them Return?
We’ve often focused on the movement of tech talent back and forth, including migration from Silicon Valley to new cities for remote work (just don’t expect to be paid precisely the same in your new town if you do make that move). Interestingly, there’s been a campaign taking the angle ...
Fresh Tech Talent Ready to Catch the Machine Learning Wave
In many Talman Tidbits, we speak of systems and trends as they pertain to machine learning and AI. Still, any momentum these areas might have requires an influx of people to embrace machine learning to the fullest. Fortunately, the signs there are increasingly positive too ...
Forget “Someday”: Machine Learning’s Growth is Serious Business NOW
It appears now, more than ever across many industries, companies are incorporating machine learning tools into their process of doing business ...
How To Evaluate Employee Performance When More Want To Work From Home
Here’s a question that won’t be easy for some companies, even though I’m confident they will figure it out eventually. If an employee can’t be seen, how do you know they’re working hard, focused on the highest priorities and well on their way to producing positive results for you? ...
Is the Great Talent Reshuffle Upon Us?
In early May, JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Diamond said he wanted people back at work because working from home “doesn’t work for young people.” In the same breath, however, he also spoke of some employees working under a hybrid model and even a tiny percentage of employees with specific roles working ...
Where’s the Puck Going Next? Virtual Reality, Coding Nomads and More…
We've frequently used hockey icon Wayne Gretzky's phrase, "Skate to where the puck is going next" to describe where technology and trends are headed, so as we face a return to work, school and life as we know it, let's do a roundup of where we see some vital "nexts" ...
Training Remote Employees: Can It Work As Well As In-Person?
Amid the talk of increased remote work post-pandemic and its potential impact on culture, teams, hiring and more, it’s smart for companies to consider how they can effectively elevate the skill sets of their teams. Particularly when those teams could be a lot more dispersed....With this in mind, how can ...
What Remote Work Means For Redefining Your Culture
As we’ve been talking a great deal about remote work and how we expect it is here to stay post-pandemic, the first impression would seem that company culture is the loser of this evolution. At Roy Talman & Associates, we’ve always gone beyond viewing people through the lens of a ...
6 Factors To Deliver A New World Of Remote Work Immigration
In our previous post, we talked about the dawn of “remote work immigration,” in which work reaches a level of mobility we’ve never seen before. It doesn’t mean you may say goodbye to the traditional office space tomorrow, but there’s little doubt that new and genuine possibilities for working remotely ...
Remote Work Immigration: Are We Prepared for the Shift?
As I was speaking earlier today to a gentleman who works in Japan, I had to reflect on how many people outside of the U.S. our firm has been talking to over the last eight months. We’re finding a significant difference in many ways. For instance, if I were to ...
Why Machine Learning Needs So Many More Humans
A while back, I read a book that proclaimed a very simple formula of how to succeed in business. Imagine you’re in the year 1910 and you’ve found a way to add electricity to a new product you’ve invented. Electricity is still relatively new at this time as it hasn’t ...
Pace of Change: Zooming Along Kurzweil’s Timeline
“We’re entering an age of acceleration. The models underlying society at every level, which are largely based on a linear model of change, are going to have to be redefined. Because of the explosive power of exponential growth, the 21st century will be equivalent to 20,000 years of progress at ...
Big Tech Breakup? No, But 230 Questions Remain
In the dawn of a new administration trying to grapple with a pandemic and rebuilding an economy, it's only a matter of time before Washington returns to the question of what its relationship to Silicon Valley. Namely, will and should Big Tech companies such as Google or Facebook be broken ...
Machine Learning’s Challenge for Talent
There may be a boom in the technical application of machine learning coming, but there’s also a problem that’s already here: One that has centered around the lack of people who know how to work with machine learning applications ...
From Working from Home to Working From Anywhere
Obviously, a pandemic has done its part to push us out of the office and keep us out for the majority of a year. COVID-19 made us stuck in our houses. But it’s not too optimistic or unrealistic to be thinking about the day and age when COVID, thankfully and ...
Permanently Virtual: Is Your Firm Ready For This?
Remember when this forced working from home was going to last a few days? Then a few weeks? Then maybe just a month or two? All those markers have been left far behind, haven't they? If someone were to tell you, in February of 2020, that a large percentage of ...
2021: The Future of Recruitment is Quality, Not Quantity
We’ll let you in on some industry insight: When someone asks a recruiter how their business is doing, the answer is often a more complicated one than you might expect. You see, if you ask about one’s recruitment business, you’re really asking, “How many people have you placed?” ...
Who is Winning the Battle of The Bandwidth
Amid a terrible and tragic pandemic, we have to look for good news anywhere we can get it as that’s a sign that we will return to normal and learn how to do things more wisely from this experience. One of those signs? There’s strong evidence that certain companies are ...
What is GPT-3? Is It A True Game Changer For Technology?
What if you’re a programmer who has been writing code in Python and one day, you don’t need the program anymore? That’s right. All you need to do now is deliver sample data into a machine, get the output type you want and analyze it. In essence, you become a ...
What if Working from Home Becomes the Rule and Not the Exception?
What both of these books have in common is a very optimistic view of where we are – a very rare thing, indeed. It may feel hard to relate to such optimism at this moment. Nonetheless, these authors believe that overall trends will be very positive and on a large ...
2020’s Silver Lining: How We Work May Be Evolving For The Better
If we talk about how the world is changing in relation to the way we work and communicate, it’s vital that we consider the convergence of three significant developments: 1) For many of our jobs, there is a true ability to do that job remotely. People can be much more ...
The State Of Hiring: 4 Insights To Plan Ahead In Unpredictable Times
We’re obviously in a tumultuous time with a lot of different changes. Still, even if your company isn’t in a rush at present to fill the next significant potential role, you can take advantage of the time to think about smart strategies for planning. Here are four insights we’re seeing ...
4 Ways To Find Your Stability In A Redefined World
The reality of the world we’re currently living in is that our industry is continuing to be redefined. It’s true for recruitment. It’s also certainly true for the industries our firm serves, such as technology, financial trading and management consulting ...
What Does the Resume of the Future Look Like
We always hear debates about whether or not resumes will even matter in the future but I prefer to look at The Resume of the Future differently: Resumes as we know them may drastically change and if we’re going to operate in a world relevant to machine learning, then candidates, ...
Might Coding Academies Level The Candidate Playing Field?
The machine learning space represents a fast-moving market in light of a number of companies trying to upgrade their technology. New technologies are moving at a much quicker pace than the educational system training people in those new technologies.The perfect example of this is a platform called React, which was ...
The Software Developer Evolution Is Upon Us
Starting this year and beyond, one trend we will see more of is that companies will need to make membership on their platform more valuable over time. Case in point: How many more people can join Facebook? It has very likely hit its peak in the growth department. So now, ...
AI As Hiring Manager: Can It Tell You Which Candidate Will Thrive?
There was a big story recently in the Wall Street Journal talking about a company that has interviewed over a million candidates via video on behalf of companies interested in hiring, such as Hyatt Hotel and Goldman Sachs. The company raised $95 million in one round of funding alone. The ...
Are You Truly “Fully Prepared” To Win The Job Race?
You’re about to go into a big interview with a prestigious firm and you feel like you’ve fully prepared for this moment. But…do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are as prepared as you could be? What does “fully prepared” truly mean to you? Consider this: ...
Are We Really In The “Golden Age” Of Artificial Intelligence?
Last month, I was reading an article in Forbes in which the author claimed that the golden age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was upon us, confirmed by a survey of more than 1,000 executives. Adoption of AI is up 72% this year compared to 48% last year! 93% of executives ...
Bigger Waves Of Data, Bigger Platform For Tech Talent To Shine
There’s plenty of talk about how “smart” machine learning systems are. The problem with these systems is that they're really narrow – and let me explain what I mean by that term. Let’s take a healthcare environment. With today’s machine learning systems applied in healthcare, if you have just the ...
Is Tech Company Compliance Hurting Small Firms More Than Large Firms?
A certain company you’ve probably heard of called Facebook was fined $5 billion recently and it’s understandably causing a great amount of chatter across the country. Is the hammer going to drop on big companies in the tech space now that it came down on Facebook? The answer may surprise ...
With New Technologies, What Makes A True Expert?
The word “expert,” is one that’s used by many but it’s hard to say that any of us can definitively agree on what does and does not make an expert. The closest I’ve heard is the definition from Malcolm Gladwell: It takes 10,000 hours of learning to become an expert ...
Two Underrated And Big Opportunities For Interview Success
At our firm, we have a real process called “The Talman Way” that’s fairly extensive but nonetheless vital to the ideal fit between candidate and client we’re striving to achieve. When a technical candidate has reached a certain point later in that process, they’ve often taken a series of tests ...
The Real Key To Getting A Job Working With AI
Without question, one of the most popular topics in our business right now is how to get a job working with artificial intelligence / machine learning. At one level, we have clients that want cutting-edge, top-of-the-line researchers. Fair enough. However, there is one issue we’ve seen arise in lot of ...
AI Graduating Beyond “Side Project’ And Moving Up The Priority List
While there has been an issue with how expensive it is to build machine learning systems and “feed” them, there’s good news to be had in that we foresee the cost of building these systems and feeding them continually going down. And as that happens, their usefulness and applicability is ...
Small H1B Visa Change May Mean Big Help For Those With Advanced Degrees
As we’ve written a few times on the challenging, ever-evolving H1B Visa process for employers and international candidates, a minor but interesting change to the H1B Visa program has occurred that’s worthy of you to be aware of if you hire people from that program. There are two types of ...
Non-Compete? No Problem. Maximize Your Time Between Jobs.
As we’re frequently dealing with senior people in high-frequency trading shops and hedge funds, it’s not uncommon to see many of them face a non-compete situation that can last as long as 18 months. This person may be privy to a process that is material to generating revenue, so a ...
Readying Your Company For A Machine Learning Talent Pipeline
For a very long time, we've heard about shortages of people with specific skills but most of those skills in question tend to be on the newer side of the spectrum. For example, if you listen to people at Google and Amazon, they're in dire need for machine learning talent ...
How Candidates Can Keep Their Learning Curve Ahead Of Accelerating Technology
In the last 18 months, with a variety of tech companies facing a solid amount of turnover – as in people leaving after only a year or two – you’d imagine that many candidates don’t need to put a whole lot of work into the entire interviewing process. They’d just ...
Prepping Your Skills For The Machine Learning Revolution
In one of our recent posts, we wrote about the coming revolution in machine learning that candidates have to prepare themselves for. In truth, we’ve heard a lot of talk about it for several years now, but we still haven’t seen a lot of activity utilizing machine learning in many ...
“Home Grown” Talent Versus Importing It
Many times, we’re preconditioned to think of hiring for talent that’s right in our own backyard. It’s convenient and let’s face it – there’s less to consider in the way of relocation expenses if it’s local and “home grown.” However, if we’re going to always be looking not only for ...
Building Stronger Tech Worker Relationships In A New Era Of Activism
Recently, Google had a massive walk-out – about 20,000 employees – over its handling of cases of sexual harassment and misconduct. It’s part of a shift we’re seeing in tech environments in what some are branding, “tech worker activism.” Employees in the tech space seem louder than ever, essentially saying, ...
Talman Talks Tech Predictions For 2019
Before I get started about what I foresee in the tech space for the coming year, let me share my favorite line about predictions, from Niels Bohr: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” So while you may take some of these predictions with a grain of ...
Why Did Amazon Really Pass Over Chicago For HQ2?
When Amazon chose the markets of New York and northern Virginia for its HQ2 company headquarters, a number of cities on the short list asked the same question: “Why not us?” Based on the chatter around town, Chicago was no different in asking this, especially since it appeared at one ...
Women In Technology: The Deeper Problem Beyond Screening Too Many Candidates Out
Until recently, Amazon had an AI-based tool to screen candidates that probably sounded really good at first on paper. In fact, it seemed like the Holy Grail: You give the tool 100 resumes, it helps screen for the top candidates and, wow, look at all the time we’ve saved! Right? ...
Lessons From Sears: The Peril Of Maintaining Status Quo Technology
Someone recently came into my office with a background in database management for the financial industry over many years. He asked, “I’m not seeing a lot of needs that entail the use of Oracle products…why is that?” My answer, basically, was that a heavy background in Oracle didn’t matter because ...
From Amazon To Google: West Coast Outposts May Shift Chicago’s Hiring Strategies
A few months ago, Facebook signed a new lease in the Loop comprising a whopping 263,000 square feet – a space that many speculate can hold 2,000 employees or more. Around the same time, we learned that Google was planning on adding 100,000 square feet of office space. Pinterest leased ...
Winning “The Lottery” On Your Own Terms
In our last post, we talked about how some people are drawn to the idea of making it big in an expensive area like New York or San Francisco while working for one of the top companies in the tech space. We often refer to this idea as “winning the ...
Picturing The Movie Version Of Your Career
I’ve written before about the concept of “The Lottery” as it pertains to certain people who want to have it all in their careers. What’s winning the lottery to them? Living in a big house in a highly desirable location like San Francisco or New York with a wide range ...
Why Silicon Valley Is Looking Hard At Chicago For Expansion
I was reading a fascinating story in the Wall Street Journal focusing on a very large software-specific private equity firm that has a unique strategy – when they buy a company that happens to be based in a high cost area, they subsequently try to diversify the geographic location of ...
Average Job Tenure Is Shrinking But There’s A Hiring Strategy For That
If there’s one observation that can be made in regard to the average job tenure at a company, it’s that these days, people generally don’t stay in one place for very long. By now, the assumption is made by many hiring managers at tech companies that within two or three ...
Picking Winners In Tech’s Next Stage And Building A Career Around One
There’s a school of thought among some in the technological space that as advanced as we humans have become at coding, code generated by machines is getting better all the time. Still, the future lies with people who can leverage the code that machines are generating for us. We still have such ...