Worried Ai Will Take Your Job? Openai's New Platform Could Help Get You One

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• OpenAI introduces its OpenAI Jobs Platform. 
• The acquisition is meant to link users to occupation opportunities. 
• This comes astatine a clip erstwhile group fearfulness AI will switch quality jobs. 

While AI is typically implicated successful replacing humans successful nan workforce, OpenAI's caller undertaking is looking to wield those AI capabilities to get you a job. 

OpenAI Jobs Platform 

On Wednesday, nan institution unveiled its OpenAI Jobs Platform, which is designed to enactment arsenic a occupation matchmaker. It uses AI to entree its repertoire of knowledgeable candidates and link them to opportunities that lucifer their accomplishment set. The news comes aft Salesforce's CEO confirmed a 4,000-person layoff and attributed immoderate of nan cuts to AI, heightening fears of AI-provoked occupation loss. 

According to OpenAI, nan level intends to usage AI to thief companies looking to prosecute caller talent meet their needs, whether that is simply a circumstantial skill, for illustration AI knowledge, aliases thief pinch a circumstantial task. The level is designed to thief mini and ample companies alike. In nan blog post, Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications astatine OpenAI, said that location will beryllium "a way dedicated to helping section businesses compete and section governments find nan AI talent they request to amended service their constituents." 

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OpenAI Certifications

As AI continues to permeate each industry, AI literacy has go an progressively important accomplishment for workers to have. OpenAI cited a BCG study that showed workers who clasp AI skills are much valuable and paid much than those without. ZDNET conscionable covered a recent study that recovered a azygous AI accomplishment makes a immense quality successful salaries offered crossed a scope of sectors. 

To thief much group go AI-savvy, OpenAI besides launched nan caller OpenAI Certifications. These certifications build connected its OpenAI Academy, a free online learning level for each things AI. The Academy will now connection certifications for various levels of AI fluency. According to nan post, users will beryllium capable to prep for nan certification by utilizing ChatGPT's Study mode and past go certified without leaving nan app. 

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The institution pledged a committedness to certifying 10 cardinal Americans by 2030, a extremity it considers reasonable acknowledgment to its motorboat partners specified arsenic Walmart. Walmart is bringing nan training to its associates, an opportunity that companies will person to incorporated nan OpenAI certification programme arsenic portion of their ain learning and improvement programs to upskill employees. 

As immoderate upskilling programs are much adjuvant than others, nan institution said sizeable thought went into what worked and didn't activity successful different approaches. For example, nan institution shares it will beryllium "delivering this training successful a measurement that is much apt to lead to skill-building than much accepted click-through certifications."