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As fast as the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing, the challenges related to it are also changing at the same pace. Meanwhile, OpenAI, the company making ChatGPT, has released a job vacancy which has shocked the entire tech industry. The company is looking for a senior engineer whose job is to think about threats and challenges that do not exist today. For this unique work, OpenAI is ready to give a bumper salary package of $ 2.95 lakh to $ 4.45 lakh annually i.e. about Rs 2.5 crore to Rs 3.7 crore.
What will this secret team of OpenAI do?
This high-profile job is not limited to just coding or technical skills. OpenAI is looking for a visionary and strategic thinking person who can foresee the future of AI. Actually, this vacancy is for the very special “Preparedness” team of the company. The main work of this team is to work in advance on the possible future threats and security risks arising from AI. For example, if an AI system starts upgrading itself and creating a better version than humans, how will it be controlled? The company wants to prepare itself in advance for similar strange and imaginary situations.
Search for ‘tasteful and strategic’ candidate
The company has put a very interesting condition in this job posting. OpenAI wants a candidate who is “Tasteful and Strategic” by nature. Simply put, the company does not want just a bookworm or a coding expert, but an intelligent person who can take right and accurate decisions in difficult times. This engineer will have to decide every day how seriously to take which threat, which one should be given first priority in terms of safety and create solutions that are right from a technological as well as a social and ethical point of view.
Will AI start doing its own research?
The focus of the person coming to this post will not be to improve the existing AI, but to keep an eye on the changing form of AI in the coming years. According to the reports, this role includes protecting the models from dangerous cyber attacks like data poisoning, creating tools that decode the way AI thinks and analyzing how many days will it take for the AI itself to handle the research work done within OpenAI. That is, in simple words, this engineer will have to see to what extent in the future AI can start the work of developing new AI in place of humans.
Sam Altman’s ‘Super AI’ Vision
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, has been dreaming of an AI system for a long time that can become the right hand of humans in research work. His vision is that the company will soon produce “Automated AI Research Intern” on a large scale, who will transform into a full-fledged AI researcher in the coming few years. Although Altman has also admitted that the company may fail in this very difficult and ambitious goal, but he believes that considering the power of AI, it is very important to have transparency and complete preparation for it.
Tech industry is standing on the threshold of singularity
Seeing this superfast speed of AI, the concerns of experts around the world have also increased. Veterans of many big AI labs believe that we are currently standing on the cusp of ‘Singularity’ (the period when AI will surpass the human mind). It is believed that by the end of this decade, AI systems will be able to develop themselves without any human help. This is the reason why companies like OpenAI are now adding huge packages to such giants who can keep this uncontrolled pace of AI within safe and responsible limits.
