ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MUTUAL CON SOCIETIES

HR professionals who’re contemplating to write blogs; I am but a friendly buddy with stray thoughts...on communication and perception....

Job interviews demand that you look for young dynamic individuals who can speak convincingly; show initiative; put a point across, look at you straight in the eye, show assertiveness and basically be the cat's whiskers.

This same candidate once hired; is quick to dynamically spot outside opportunities, have opinions, say no and basically become a pain in your mid tending to lower dorsal frame...exactly the traits you hired for.

So is a half hour interview enough to assess a candidate? You know that answer too; but to my mind…the interview is a hopelessly inadequate tool manipulated by smart candidates who can con and put on an act sufficiently well for a small period of time.  

Im unfortunately not able to come up with any graphs or correlations here on the number of con jobs at play out there, as that requires tremendous intellect. Intellect to analyse and spot patterns and put them into tables. But my rapidly graying hair has some coherent things to say.

Every situation in our life could be as artificial as that job interview.

Bhasphemous! Ban this blog! Who hired this dame! Is she being paid?

‘Im just being myself’ is the biggest con line and theres no harm really as the person whos falling for it also knows exactly what percentage of it is true. So its always a mutual con society.

A recent ad campaign on how ‘each friend is very zaroori’ made me wonder how friends who’ve spent 3 years sitting on the same table in a classroom move apart; do not talk for three to four years and then when both of them are in suitable positions to take advantage of each other; suddenly find ‘old friendship’ the most convenient way to explain their mutual greed.

See; but there's no harm at all; both of them are playing the same sport! 

Motherhood and duties that come with it will not be touched in this column; as collective outrage on love that stems from the womb will jeopardize this blog forever. Cant handle the outrage. 

Couples present the most curious communication cues to each other.

“Honey; remember that dinner; my old classmate from B –school; we have to go; I told them all about your charity work; and they really want to meet you.”

“Honey; my colleague has started travelling in a Merc; and I was wondering whether I could take yours to office for a day. She should know I’m used to luxury as much as she is.”

“I ve gone for the last 7 parent teacher meetings; Cant you go for one? All other fathers make it! And I haven’t had a hair spa in 7 months!”

The most deadly one “ its your turn to switch off the light ?”

So most of the times; the response would be “you selfish pig/sow as applicable. Are you just meant to use me?” The reason why its never said is the same comment could come back in no time at all; with equal or greater vehemence; as give and take is a fundamental right here, not an option.

So our response to the communication assumes a more palatable form.

So even when your boss asks you “is it too much to stay back for an hour and finish the presentation” and you badly want to watch a Tom Cruise movie; your measured artificial response is “ not at all; of course”

So all this ranting about just means that all human communication is always under the purview of an artificial environment that assesses impact of response and  speaks accordingly.

Its all well for us to only perceive some relationships to be “communication-conned” and others to be “communication-original.”

The old brain; evolutionary giant that lives within each of us and knows only survival teaches even a 2 year old child to behave as per results; not as per instinct. Education on how to communicate begins sub-consciously; earlier than most people realize and evolves more rapidly than our conscious mind. Nobody in their right mind likes to say “in two minutes boss” with a smile. Its always more skewed towards “when I feel like it moron”! But you factor in the result and then speak..smart!