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.

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.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      Not to mention that a lot of kids are functionally illiterate because they just ask ChatGPT basic shit and it just spurts out bullshit to them.

    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      It has actually only created a single good. Better language translators. Every major translator has been “ai” based since about 2016. The recent speed up of llms have massively improved their accurate ability to retain context and pick up on slang and colloquialisms.

      Its seriously night and day how fucking good translators got entirely thanks to ai.

      But that’s literally the only thing I’ve seen come out of llms that was worth two fucking shits.