AI

Artificial intelligence is no longer the future – it’s creeping into HCM technology even as we speak. But it’s also in a hype phase, where to appear cutting-edge, vendors and customers must talk about things like “machine learning” and “recommendation engines” if they want to be taken seriously. Here’s where we try to sort it all out.

Apple Vision Pro Screen
Apple will accept pre-orders for its VR headset Vision Pro in the next few weeks, and begin shipping the product on February 2. The announcement came after weeks of speculation about the company's plans. Vision Pro is a wearable virtual/augmented-reality headset that allows users to access apps from the...
Salesforce Building
Salesforce seems to have two things in mind lately: a need to streamline work across platforms and to add more AI capabilities to its products. Its August redesign of Slack simplified the use of multiple workspaces while its earlier launch of the native Slack GPT eased generative AI app...
Bridge Construction
Google’s Gemini, the new AI product launched last week, is positioned as a leap into AI’s next generation, able to work with a variety of media types across a variety of products. Its capabilities could power solutions to tackle issues that go beyond content generation, debugging and summarizing. Some...
Fireworks
No surprise: AI was the dominant topic of HR technology conversation during 2023, while the underlying issues facing employers didn’t change. Businesses are preoccupied with skills, believe good workers are hard to find and struggle to figure out how to implement hybrid work policies. We think 2024 will be similar...
Analyzing Code
Despite the hesitation of many organizations, more than half of employees are using AI in their daily work, with 54% using the technology regardless of whether their companies have a usage policy, or even allow it. In the HR department, 66% of professionals use AI to get their work done,...
HR Team
Nearly two-thirds of employers (64%) spend over 570 hours a year and at least 11 hours per week on HR administration. The survey by Paychex covered U.S.-based business with between five and 500 employees. In addition, the study found that annual spending for the largest businesses is as high...
Star Trek Data
WorkFusion, an intelligent automation company focused on financial technology, launched Work.AI, a no-code platform that leverages an organization’s domain expertise to create an AI-based digital workforce. Behind the scenes, the platform combines the capabilities of AI/machine learning, intelligent document processing and robotic process automation. WorkFusion’s not the only company using...
OpenAI GPTs
Lost in the noise of OpenAI’s executive kerfuffle is the launch of OpenAI’s AI app marketplace. According to Reuters, the GPT Store will allow developers to share AI-based apps – called GPTs – and earn revenue based on its number of users. The announcements took place at the company’s first...
Phenom Explain AI
Transcript Mark: Welcome to PeopleTech, the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. My guest today is Mahe Bayireddi, the CEO of Phenom. They use AI in their talent acquisition platform of course, but they also talk a lot about data. Mahe says that's because he's seen...
Authorities Struggle With What to Do About AI
With the increased utilization of AI tools to streamline the hiring process, the question of regulations has been on many minds. As a result, state and federal authorities are grappling with how to regulate the use of AI in hiring and guard against algorithmic bias. According to Reuters, surveys show...