Introduction to AI in HRM

0:26 Hello, learners. Namaste. Welcome to the first lecture of the course AI in Human Resource Management. If you have gone through the introduction video, you must have understood or at least heard that we will be looking into the nuances of artificial intelligence and human resource management. We have discussed the what, the why, and who should actually take this course. So, let me start this particular course on AI in Human Resource Management. I'm Dr. Abraham Cyril Issac. I'm an assistant professor at the School of Business in the Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

0:56 Now, when you look into artificial intelligence, let's hold AI for some time. Let's look into human behavior. In most OB courses, even the one I taught on organizational behavior on the NPTEL platform, I have tried to emphasize modeling behavior, vicarious modeling, learning by imitating others, simulation experiences, etc. So, whenever you look closely at any particular individual, his or her learning abilities have been curated or nourished as part of some level of modeling or replication. This you can understand by even looking at larger organizations that boast or are proud to say they have great management practices.

1:30 Those practices are to be replicated in smaller organizations and smaller organizations feel that those replication or those simulation of those best practices will actually get them there. You will come to the individual level. The same case, individuals try to emulate or try to replicate the behavioral patterns of others. This has been the history of human mankind. This has been the way people actually believe or behave for that matter. Now, this particular notion or this particular understanding that you are replicating or you are simulating somebody else's behavior, this has given a certain evolution to artificial intelligence.

2:39 I would like to see it in this way, where artificial intelligence refers to the simulation of human intelligence. in machines that are programmed to think and learn like humans. So till now, every single human being was trying to imitate somebody else.