Autocomplete extra. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make coding a thing of the past.
It's just that they are all entry level...soo.
(Midjourney prompt: Developers standing in line at the unemployment office)
OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has been busy recruiting over the past six months, taking on roughly 1,000 remote contractors from across the globe, including Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Sources familiar with the situation have reported that around 60% of the new hires are responsible for data labeling, which involves creating huge collections of images, audio clips, and other data to train AI tools or self-driving cars.
The remaining 40% are computer programmers creating data to educate OpenAI’s models in software engineering. Their product Codex, released in August 2021, converts natural language into code.
With hundreds of programmers making a concerted effort to “teach” the models how to write basic code, the technology behind ChatGPT, GPT3.5, and Codex might be headed toward a new kind of software development as transformative to that sector as heavy equipment was to the construction industry.
It’s just that contractors OpenAI and other companies hired worldwide are typically not computer science graduates, nor do they have advanced coding knowledge. Their skill is writing the kind of basic code that OpenAI hopes to one day automate.
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