OpenAI Plans Jobs Platform, Certification Program for AI Roles

OpenAI plans to launch a new AI-powered jobs platform next year to help match employers with candidates who have AI skills in a bid to accelerate the technology's deployment across businesses and government agencies. From a report: The ChatGPT maker will also introduce a new certification program in the coming months that will teach workers how to better use AI on the job. OpenAI is working with multiple organizations on the program, including Walmart, the largest private employer in the US. OpenAI said it plans to certify 10 million Americans by 2030. [...] For the jobs platform, OpenAI plans to use AI to help match local governments and companies of all sizes with potential candidates.

Topping out

[abulafia]

Someone important in the firm thinks they're plateauing, time to start rolling out second-order product and maybe thinking a little harder about that moat.

Re: Topping out

[sziring]

2025 goals: Make sure they get company xyz setup the chatgpt way.
2026 goals: swap certified person for API's to chatgpt.

CRAP : Certified Repulsive AI Professional

[Anonymous Coward]

I hope to get my AI certificate in order to put it on the wall next to my Microsoft Solitaire Professional Certification.
Although I could ask ChatGPT to generate me one right now.

But the AI?!!??

[paul_engr]

But the AI is gonna obsolete all dem jobs?

Re:

[nikkipolya]

ooopsy... don't put dem nails in the AI coffin so soon. It's gonna hurt OpenAI in the backyard.

Here's an idea!

[paul_engr]

Make a fake microsoft office to take on zoom, who also panic-made a fake microsoft office.

Yawn...

[NoOnesMessiah]

OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple... I wouldn't work for any of them (and they're IN THIS MARKET except for OpenAI) and I know I have the chops because I've been aggressively recruited by a couple of them in the past. But the spiel is always the same, "pack up all your crap, sell your home, uproot your family, leave your friends behind, and then they go full Blade Runner "Off-World Colonies" marketing blitz on you: "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies! A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure!" Then 16 months later you're down-sized, made redundant, whatever, and living in your car. Pass. Plus, we're in AI bubble territory. How long do you think it will be before the top 5-7 companies are laying off hundreds or thousands of workers because they need to cut costs? Zuckerberg just paid $14 Billion (yes, with a "B") for Scale AI but it's been losing money forever. How much longer before just Scale itself has to re-organize? Big Fat Pass.

Non-Paywalled Source

[Aero77]

https://www.businessinsider.co... [businessinsider.com]

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[Aero77]

"The spokesperson said the pilot phase of the certification program will launch around the end of 2025 or early 2026."

Candidates who have AI skills ?

[Mirnotoriety]

The ability to type in a long prompt into a ChatBOT and hope the output isn't totally illusionary.

Oh good, more certifications.

[sabbede]

So, pay OpenAI so they will say you know how to use their product. Sounds super-valuable and not at all a scam.

Sounds super desparate

[nikkipolya]

They should instead reinvent themself into an "AI generated scroll" business. There is still a lot of juice left in cute and furry animal videos.

anyone else?

[jriding]

To me long term this sounds like a "Web Master" position. At the beginning you were making big bucks and felt like a god in control.
Flash forward a couple of years and .... what is a web master?
I look forward to the "I am a certified AI prompt master" certificate.