OpenAI is trying to make the case that AI can actually be useful at work, as some recent studies have shown that companies aren’t getting much out of their AI investments.

On Tuesday, the ChatGPT-maker released a report introducing a new benchmark for testing AI on “economically valuable, real-world tasks” across 44 different jobs. The evaluation is called GDPval, and OpenAI says it’s meant to ground workplace AI debates in evidence rather than hype—and track how models improve over time.

It comes on the heels of a recent MIT Media Lab study that found fewer than one in ten AI pilot projects delivered measurable revenue gains and warned that “ 95 percent of organizations are getting zero return ” on their AI bets. And just last week, researchers from Harvard Business Review’s BetterU

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