Expanding Economic Opportunity with AI
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OpenAI announces a plan to expand economic opportunity with AI, but the community is skeptical about the initiative's true intentions and effectiveness, questioning whether it's just a marketing effort or a genuine attempt to improve AI literacy.
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real Prompt engineering is done using automated methods, i.e. textgrad or dspy to make sure your prompt has been optimized for 500+ iterations.
It's the same dynamic but shrunk by far more time due to extreme uptick. You won't ever prompt even close to better than the person who literally optimized a prompt using verifiable rewards for 500 iterations.
The future will be controlled by those most effective at wielding the means of computation. Writing prompts by hand gets you the equivalent of a serf getting a shovel. Learning to wield the automation tools gets you your own castle.
Add [1] to ChatGPT custom instructions and responses improve dramatically.
[1] https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/chatgpt-custom-instructi...
This is complete garbage, imho
If nothing else, if this was truly “open” then whatever bullshit training or certification would just be released into the public for people to reference at-will.
So now there’s going to be some database of “you passed our certification to use our tool” essentially creating an in-group and an out-group.
All this because “you’re holding it wrong, clearly the problem isn’t us, it’s you people”
This is dystopian.
Yikes. Cringiest tech bubble ever.
And once they can use it and get visible results, those orgs are ripe for large amounts of AI product adoption.
Only downside to the OAI version will be that it's OAI specific.
If its goal is to act like Cisco or Juniper and create a robust certification platform that helps identify legitimate experts in the field, helping to exclude people who talk big on AI but cant deliver, its a very good idea.
If its just a tick a box exercise however it will have zero value.
>OpenAI is committing to certifying 10 million Americans by 2030
I reckon they would have a better time certifying 10 million foreigners tbh. India and the Philippines have a lot of people who pass through IT certification.
Nothing wrong with it, nothing to see here.