OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research lab comprised of both for-profit and non-profit branches, focused on ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Coursera's OpenAI catalogue enables you to delve into the intricacies of OpenAI's advanced AI models. You'll learn about the applications and ethical considerations of artificial general intelligence, the implementation of reinforcement learning, language models like GPT-3, and how to use the OpenAI API for varied AI tasks. This knowledge will equip you to understand and potentially contribute to the future of artificial intelligence, be it as a researcher, developer, data scientist or AI enthusiast.