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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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[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

is he for real?

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

his eye 1/2 his face is drooping so much, he had to of had a stroke.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago
[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

I will not be buying intelligence from that weirdo lizard. Because I am unfortunately literate.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He is enshittfying it before it has even taken off

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Scary to think what the actually enshittified version will be like...

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 49 minutes ago

It could go bust first. The reason he's talking so much is because he needs the attention to hide the fact that OpenAI doesn't really have any real advantage anymore. Claude models tend to be faster and Chinese models tend to be cheaper (especially since they're open weight so there are many providers for any given model if you can't or don't want to self host. You can get latest Qwen for a tenth of the price of latest GPT on openrouter right now. Even Claude Opus is marginally cheaper than GPT.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly what i was thinking but i find this molester moron insulting for even daring to say that to our face.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world -1 points 5 hours ago

That is a terrible thing to say about /u/sturmblast

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 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.".
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 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 47 minutes 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

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pwxd@lemmy.zip 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh okay, now I get why they made it so easy for student to let Ai do their work; they want the generation to rely on them

[–] marzhall@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

First hit's free, man

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine a world with no libraries, no internet search, no wiki.... They turn it all off after gobbling it all up, just to sell it back, because they end up with all information, for sale.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Wiki's and Libraries have never been profitable and always existed just outside the capitalists control. Or rather, tolerated. They may get hidden from mainstream view on commercial platforms, but they can't fully kill them, only drive them underground. Even if they try that, the more people that know about them, the safer they get.

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

You don't have to worry about that too much, the mighty chinese industrial economy will steamroll the american scam economy before they're able to implement their plans worldwide. Now, we in western countries might end up trapped in a prison society where all information is controlled by LLM chatbots, but it won't be the fate of the whole world.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Americans will buy on a inch!

I can't wait to lance the AI bubble like a doggone perineal abscess.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Yeah? hows that panning out so far?

[–] eronth@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

lol no they won't. People aren't using it free.

[–] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 13 hours ago

perfect as a sockpuppet for the anti-christ thiel.

[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 4 points 14 hours ago

OK, but what about the investors? They're gonna start pushing to see returns soon, you don't invest $1Trillion USD on a "maybe it'll trickle back to me in 20 years" strategy.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Every capitalist is a conman.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The only capitalist that isnt, is a socialist

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I am so jealous of this guy's ability to lie. I'm just so crap at it, I end up just telling the truth.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I have bad news about the chances you will ever become a billionaire.

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I've got like 10 people ahead of me

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another desperate attempt to monetize. AI bubble-burst, here we come!

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I cant believe it hasnt burst yet, so artificially held together by hopes, dreams, and unhealthy amounts of soulless cash...

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

That's not going to happen no matter what. Open source models are already catching up to frontier proprietary models. Altman wishes he had a monopoly over that, but he doesn't. The bubble won't last, and things like OpenRouter will become the main way people use AI. Google alone is a major reason why intelligence will never be like a utility like electricity or water or internet.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

google trains thier AI/Open AI on reddit mostly

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[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

Literally the future capitalism has always wanted; all common resources seized from the public for the good of private equity.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

ever since feudalism fell, dipshits all over the world have had one thing in mind: bring it back. now they're almost there. and the peasants are all too ready to give it back.

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The dude changes his pricing model everytime he's interviewed. Dude has no idea what he wants to do, so long as it's billable.

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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