LinkedIn is gaining some generative AI capabilities today as Microsoft continues to infuse its AI investments into its various products and businesses. Furthermore, LinkedIn will not only use GPT-3.5: it will also use the latest model of OpenAI, GPT-4.
Starting today, LinkedIn offers new tools that allow users to induce AI models to create personalized profiles and job descriptions. The latter is built using OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model, according to LinkedIn, while the new GPT-4 is used for profile writing. Using the models, the burden of writing such compositions would be taken off the shoulders of the users with only simple prompts and little information they need to provide. LinkedIn said the tools would be tested on LinkedIn’s premium subscribers first before rolling out to all subscriptions.
As LinkedIn noted, the AI will use the content already present in users’ profiles to create personalized writing suggestions for the profiles.
“Our tool identifies the key skills and experiences to highlight in your About Us and Headline sections and creates suggestions to make your profile stand out.” explained Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn’s chief product officer. “By doing the heavy lifting for you, the tool saves you time and energy while preserving your unique voice and style.”
Meanwhile, the AI-powered job description tool would only require users to provide a few details, including job titles and company names. The company said that after providing such information, the job descriptions would be generated “for you to review and edit,” which is reasonable given that AI models are still error-prone.
On the other hand, hoping to encourage more professionals to use AI, which is constantly making changes in various industries, LinkedIn has launched over 100 AI courses that all LinkedIn users can access for free until June 15th. In addition, Cohen said several generative AI courses are now also being offered on LinkedIn and it was promised that more courses on the subject would arrive in the coming months.