The AI Compute Race Glossary Research intern

Research intern

What does “Research intern” mean?

Research intern

See automated AI researcher.

Automated AI researcher OpenAI’s goal of a system that does the work of an AI researcher, the result the money was spent to buy. Its first rung, the research intern, is a system that carries out well-defined research tasks under human direction. Chapter 3.

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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Research intern.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/research-intern (accessed 2026-11-01).

BibTeX

@misc{dryburgh-research-intern-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Research intern}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/research-intern},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}

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