A
Having some sort of trust / guarantee that you are hiring a skilled engineer who knows what they’re doing is a very understandable need, but is yet another certification program really the best way to do that?
Apart from the semi-philosophical discussion of whether this style of certifications have strong correlation with one’s performance in the role in practice, this kind of trainings are usually done by b2b enterprise corporations, akin to Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle etc.
B
OpenAI seems to be more oriented towards creating functional prototypes and allowing people to use them rather than creating enterprise solutions at the moment.
- Having a certification program would also mean they need to allocate a good amount of human resources to create, maintain, promote, teach, and coach such certification programs.
- Such a certification program would not result in OpenAI’s products being better. It seems that OpenAI keeps having an edge in the AI race because of their ability to implement research into product fast. Their narrow focus and fast pace is their strongest element, and a certification program would help neither of the two.
Even if they would decide to offer such training, the pace of innovation is so fast, that:
- OpenAI would need to update it quite often
- Whatever certification you get now could be semi-obsolete in a year
So, while it might (or might not) be a good idea to have certifications for OpenAI technology, I can’t see how it makes sense for OpenAI, apart maybe to exploit short-term revenue from people who will pay for the certification.
I’d be happy to hear how the above thinking might be flawed, I didn’t think about it too much.