First off, LinkedIn has introduced some new AI options, constructing on its rising suite of AI-powered choices. Its newest instruments, which can be made out there to LinkedIn Premium subscribers solely, are designed to assist customers make sense of their feed, job posts, and so on.

Which appears regarding, however we’ll get to that.

As defined by LinkedIn:

“Our new AI-powered expertise will analyze your feed’s posts (from the commentary to the article to the dialog) and reveal the important thing salient alternatives for you…in a single easy click on… in seconds. It is going to tackle the onerous work of parsing by way of lengthy articles, movies, and posts and recommend concepts on how the knowledge will be useful to you. You then’ll get to spend your useful time taking motion on it.”

Yeah, don’t waste your valuable mind energy studying by way of issues, let this technique simply provide the Cliffs Notes, with the intention to cross your self off as being educated with out having any in-depth perception into something.

It appears somewhat problematic, on a platform the place folks want to showcase their skilled experience and perception, to have a system that may allow you to feign this. However certain, save your self a while, let AI let you know what it’s good to know, then transfer on.

Yeah, possibly it’s my bias as a author, however I don’t assume that it is a good thought, or a useful innovation. Like, it is best to simply learn the unique put up, not a robot-generated abstract. However possibly I’m simply old fashioned like that.

Although its subsequent AI innovation could possibly be much more problematic.

“Our new job seeker expertise reimagines what’s potential. From seamlessly assessing if a specific job is an efficient match so that you can figuring out the easiest way to place your self for it, we’ll aid you discover your dream function and construct your confidence. With this expertise, researching roles, firms, and even getting ready for interviews turn out to be a part of a seamless, pleasant interplay on LinkedIn.”

So, this new device will aid you perceive whether or not it is best to apply, primarily, by utilizing AI to summarize the necessities, and information your software course of.

Like, when you don’t perceive the job advert, or when you can’t even be bothered studying it, it’s in all probability not for you, proper?

I don’t know, it looks as if LinkedIn’s attempting to wedge AI instruments into locations the place they in all probability shouldn’t be, however I may see the potential time saving advantages for job seekers who’re making use of to plenty of jobs directly.

However actually, gaining information is essential, and utilizing AI at this stage of the method appears to be guiding folks in the direction of utilizing it for much more components, even past this, and feigning experience that they don’t have.

However possibly that’s only a cynical perspective. Although it’s seemingly not as cynical as this:

Along with these new AI options, LinkedIn has additionally introduced that it’s now reached a brand new milestone of 1 billion whole members.

Which, when you’ve been studying my posts, you realize that I don’t agree with each the metric and the maths on this.

For one, LinkedIn has by some means gotten away with solely reporting whole member counts for years, though each different social platform shares lively consumer stats. Whole member counts are irrelevant. X, for instance, hosts greater than 2 billion consumer profiles, although most of them are inactive, with its official consumer depend being 250 million.

If Elon Musk have been to abruptly report that X now has 2 billion members, the announcement can be ridiculed and mocked, however by some means, LinkedIn will be like ‘we’ve bought a billion members’ and act like that’s a factor.

It’s not, and it additionally looks as if it might’t probably be correct, primarily based on LinkedIn’s different stories.

Simply final week, as a part of mother or father firm Microsoft’s newest efficiency replace, LinkedIn reported that it has 985 million members.

So it’s added 15 million in a couple of days?

It additionally appears to have misplaced no progress momentum in any respect, regardless of pulling out of China earlier this yr, the place it had 59 million members.

By some means, LinkedIn’s member depend remained unchanged after that. Which appears a bit odd, proper?

Although once more, member depend, in itself, is definitely not related, what issues is how many individuals are literally coming again and utilizing the app regularly.

Which LinkedIn was truly pressured to share not too long ago, below the brand new EU DSA laws, which stipulate that every one giant on-line platforms must share their lively consumer counts within the area.

Primarily based on that knowledge, round 40% of LinkedIn members are literally lively customers, at the very least in Europe. And when you have been to extrapolate that to different areas, you possibly can assume that LinkedIn, at a billion members (if that’s correct) now has round 400 million lively customers.

Which I fairly good, and I don’t see why LinkedIn would attempt to masks it behind the completely ineffective ‘member’ depend.

However that’s what it’s all the time reported, for some cause, however for context, it looks as if LinkedIn in all probability has round 400 million actives.

Perhaps. I don’t know, their numbers are far and wide, and once more, when LinkedIn has misplaced members, they haven’t appeared to come back off that whole depend.

The underside line is that LinkedIn’s including some new AI instruments, which might assist folks seem extra certified than they’re, and it’s now as much as a billion members, which is a meaningless stat.

That’s the TL;DR, no AI required.