Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to sell intelligence like a utility
During a recent appearance at BlackRock in Washington, D.C., OpenAI’s Sam Altman, shared his vision for the future of AI. At one point saying, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
Altman was describing a world where AI becomes a foundational infrastructure, something woven into everyday life so deeply that consumers and businesses simply “plug into” it the same way they rely on electricity, Wi-Fi or running water.
I was heartened by college graduates booing these assholes.
I’m not anti-AI, but anti whatever fresh hell they are unloading unto the masses. This is something that requires careful planning to ensure we don’t devastate resources or stall critical think skills and knowledge.
They scraped the internet’s knowledge and want to sell it back to those who actually created it.
Rent-seeking has entirely replaced innovation in modern capitalism.
Paving Paradise in 3,2,1…
LLMs are not intelligent lol
The Google AI overview is so often wrong when I ask it basic questions like who is in a TV show or movie, it’s unfucking believable. I’m very anti-Ai. It only creates bad, not good
I still have a library card.
Until they remove libraries
they can try it. my town is armed and legitimately loves its library. liberal hick towns are weird.
liberal hick towns Didn’t know that was a thing. Where do you live?!
bay area california. not petaluma, but check out petaluma. that’s a good example, it’s where my dad grew up. when you get a good mix of rural and urban beautiful things happen. the people who don’t usually mix, they mix. and those barriers come down.
I don’t understand how there’s ever a business model since people can just run their own models locally.
The goal is to make personal computing hardware so expensive that the average person cannot afford to do that. 😬
This is fine.
It’s a GOOD thing for Samuel Alterman that Intelligence ISNT something you could get WITHOUT AI! People don’t know that even PLATO had AI to Help Him!
Well ofcourse first step to this is to cultivate an environment where most people lose their skills or don’t train them at all. So I bet each time someone uses AI for exams they have a little orgasm.
Don’t get me wrong, I am open to the idea of AI tools as productivity enhancers, especially local models with open weights. But the OP puts what these tech bros want more aptly then I ever could, they want to monopolize on intelligence and skills.
Companies can already buy intelligence as a utility. It’s called contractor work. Buying tokens from Sam Altman is not going to result in the outcomes the companies want. Hire me instead, at least I kind of know what I’m doing.
I’ll sell Sam Altman an ounce of dignity, only a small 1 billion dollar fee.
Putting aside that what they sell is not even inteligence: if they are providing a utility, then let’s regulate them like a utility, e.g. electricity distribution
The wording also struck a nerve because many AI models were trained on enormous amounts of publicly available internet data such as books, articles, forums and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.
That’s much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.
and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.
That’s much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.
We were never even asked for permission to use our works and words.
Stealing your original work so you can pay for a regurgitated version of it.
It also means there’s nothing unique about their AI that couldn’t be replicated by someone else.
He’s basically selling bottled tap water, you can get the same thing by just going into your kitchen. There is no actual product.
Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil is a cure for everything.
So basically a world in which the only ideas that exist are approved by AI companies? I know evocations of 1984 have been a cliche for ages but
