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.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    24·
    3 months ago

    I don’t think that Sam guy has a good understanding of what intelligence is. One test for that is to know the difference between a for-profit and a non-profit organization. I’m starting to believe that this guy will say anything in order for the masses to purchase his questionable product.

    • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      Pretty sure that’s well established

      Didn’t he pretend to not pay himself/not care about money, and then was filmed driving a multi-million $$ super car?

      He’s one in a long line of compulsive liars

      • ZDL@lazysoci.al
        2·
        3 months ago

        He doesn’t pay himself … on a technicality. Rich folk in general don’t spend money like you or I do. They don’t even actually have money like you or I do. They’re leveraged to the hilt using their stock shares to finance loans and then live off the loans. (This is a tax evasion thing.) So he can claim he’s not taking a salary or being paid even while spending a million dollars a day.

        And once they have this much “fuck you” money lying around for free, they don’t care about money. It would be like you caring about air. It’s just … there.