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

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’ll tackle the arduous work of parsing by means of lengthy articles, movies, and posts and recommend concepts on how the data could be useful to you. Then you definitely’ll get to spend your priceless time taking motion on it.”

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

It appears a bit problematic, on a platform the place folks need to showcase their skilled experience and perception, to have a system that might allow you to feign this. However positive, 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 this can be a good thought, or a priceless innovation. Like, it is best to simply learn the unique publish, not a robot-generated abstract. However possibly I’m simply old style like that.

Although its subsequent AI innovation may very well be much more problematic.

“Our new job seeker expertise reimagines what’s doable. 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 enable you discover your dream position and construct your confidence. With this expertise, researching roles, firms, and even getting ready for interviews change into a part of a seamless, pleasant interplay on LinkedIn.”

So, this new device will enable you perceive whether or not it is best to apply, primarily, through the use of 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 most likely not for you, proper?

I don’t know, it looks as if LinkedIn’s attempting to wedge AI instruments into locations the place they most likely shouldn’t be, however I can even see the potential time saving advantages for job seekers who’re making use of to loads of jobs without delay.

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

However possibly that’s only a cynical perspective. Although it’s doubtless 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 understand that I don’t agree with each the metric and the mathematics on this.

For one, LinkedIn has someway gotten away with solely reporting whole member counts for years, despite the fact that each different social platform shares lively consumer stats. Complete 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 had been to out of the blue report that X now has 2 billion members, the announcement could be ridiculed and mocked, however someway, LinkedIn could 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 could possibly’t probably be correct, based mostly on LinkedIn’s different studies.

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 development 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 really pressured to share just lately, below the brand new EU DSA laws, which stipulate that each one giant on-line platforms should 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 had 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 purpose, however for context, it looks as if LinkedIn most likely has round 400 million actives.

Perhaps. I don’t know, their numbers are everywhere, 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.