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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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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They scraped the internet's knowledge and want to sell it back to those who actually created it.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rent-seeking has entirely replaced innovation in modern capitalism.

[–] vapordays@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago

Innovation was only ever a small part. Rent-seeking is more fundamental to capitalism than "innovation" is. It's just more brazen than we remember from our childhoods.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Paving Paradise in 3,2,1......