OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training datasets

OpenAI is rolling out a new partnership program to collect datasets from third parties that it intends to use to train its AI models. The initiative, OpenAI Data Partnerships, will seek large-scale private and public information that it says is "not already easily accessible online to the public." The company says the data it will collect doesn't necessarily have to be quantitative or in text formats -- the program will also accept images, audio or video. Notably, the company says it's on the lookout for data on "any topic" and in "any language" so long as it "expresses human intention," which it likens to long-form essays or transcribed conversations. Human-centric data collected by OpenAI is expected to help the company improve tools like its automatic speech recognition technology which is used to transcribe spoken words. This initiative also lines up with ChatGPT's recent expansion to support voice queries to engage with users in a conversational manner.