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OpenAI is hiring 'AI-pilled' academics to build a scientific discovery accelerator

Here's what we know about OpenAI's proposed science platform and GPT-5's role in it.

Weil, who will lead the effort, wrote that OpenAI will hire a team of "world-class" academics who are "completely AI-pilled" and "great science communicators" to join a small group of researchers already employed by the company. After all, if the company can prove that GPT-5 is able to meaningfully contribute to scientific discovery -- a rigorous process which requires abstract, multistep reasoning, and which could hypothetically result in practical benefits for society at large -- individual users and businesses could be more inclined to trust the model with their own sensitive tasks. While Weil didn't mention grant-writing in his blog post, this is another area in which generative AI tools like ChatGPT could fruitfully be applied: researchers currently spend close to half(45%) of their time writing grant proposals, according to the think tank the Institute for Progress.

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