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
    25·
    7 days 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·
      7 days 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·
        6 days 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.

        • luciferofastora@feddit.org
          2·
          6 days ago

          It would be like you caring about air. It’s just … there.

          Only because we’ve not yet poisoned it to the point where breathable air becomes the most obscene pay-to-live feature.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.org
      3·
      6 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?”