Sam Altman says people may someday “buy intelligence on a meter” like electricity or water and critics say the vision sounds more dystopian than innovative.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47387000

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.

  • luciferofastora@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    To a devout capitalist, anything and everything can and should be turned into a commodity. First, we need people to get hooked on the convenience of not having to think for themselves, let their natural intelligence wither from disuse, then charge them for the privilege-turned-necessity of outsourced intelligence.

    His understanding of just about anything is focused on two questions:

    • “How can I sell this?”
    • “How can I use this to sell other things?”