Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: LinkedIn chief product officer Tomer Cohen talks about the future of work and how the Microsoft-owned professional sbocial network is using AI to make the lives of recruiters and job seekers, hopefully, better...OpenAI closes the largest venture capital funding round ever...Big Pharma learns to share data...and London startup Synthesia grants actors equity in exchange for their likeness. Is it a model for solving AI's IP conundrum?
If you want to know how AI is changing the nature of work, LinkedIn offers a good vantage point. The Microsoft-owned professional social network is a key hub for job seekers and recruiters—every minute, 10,000 people apply for a job through the platform and seven people are successfully hired on it, according to the company. That means it has lots of data on what roles companies are hiring for and the skills they are looking for. LinkedIn is also a good lens through which to examine how AI is altering the nature of looking for work.
The person ultimately responsible for rolling out AI product features at LinkedIn is Tomer Cohen, the company’s chief product officer. I recently sat down with Cohen at LinkedIn’s London office to chat about AI’s impact on job seekers, recruiters, and on LinkedIn’s own platform.
