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'People will buy intelligence from us on a meter': ChatGPT's Sam Altman's AI vision worries critics (www.tomsguide.com)
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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.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 27 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Impossible. It doesn’t require any local infrastructure, so there’s no inherent lock-in like you see with utilities.

Utterly delusional CEO.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.

Less "we are a utility" and more "we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it's used"

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

With the right government, anything is possible. Sam isn’t delusional at all. He’s a walking humanitarian crisis, a psychopath, a public threat to society, a terrorist if you will. We were all supposed to be using Loopt by his words.