I'm thinking the promises of this technology will never be realized.
However, in my experience, HR departments and hiring processes are anything but rational. HRs buy any kind of snake oil by the barrel, and hiring managers generally reach their position for reasons entirely unrelated to the ability to identify and hire above average employees.
I’m not too worried about the long game though, humans are proving to be quite adaptable with tools like this one; an AI that optimizes your resume to match a given job description: https://www.jobscan.co/
Which aspect do you find farfetched?
The main goal was to filter people who have the biggest chance to go through the human interviews later in the process.
The only reason why it's called ,,AI'' now is because it's trendy. It can be just a simple linear model that takes education (University) and GPA score into account.
The simplest way to skip these filters is to get a reference from a person who already works at the company.
This is exactly what happens. Most experienced engineers I know with a good resume get emails almost weekly from Google and Amazon in particular.
After the law suit my salary was increased 10% at Google, although I didn’t even work in US :)
If you’re at the level of working for Google you’re presumably already at the absolute top of your field internationally and will know people at Google you can reach out to personally.