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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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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Back in the day...

  • "Google, what's playing at the cinema this evening at 9PM?". "The Amazing Spiderman". In the near future...
  • "Google, what's playing at the cinema this evening at 9PM?". "That'll be $4.95.".
[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It feels weird thinking of the amazing Spiderman as "back in the day" when I remember the Toby McGuire Spiderman films.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

This gets worse and worse as time goes on. Movies like Superbad seem like they just came out a few years ago but is actually about to be 20 years old. The Toby Maguire Spiderman is about to turn 25 years old, a quarter century!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And then it tells you what was in the cinema at the point the AI was trained.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

They can search the Internet now. Would be ironic if Google's model was worse at googling than some random open weight models I've downloaded lol