Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern
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If OpenAI is comfortable calling one of its systems an "AI research intern," the bar for what counts as meaningful R&D contribution has shifted from automation to collaboration. Research orgs should start cataloging which parts of their pipeline—literature review, experiment design, code, analysis—can be agent-augmented this quarter.
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