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.
They don’t have intelligence, they have spicy AutoCorrect
Four people that downvoted you are admitting that it is smarter than they are.
It’s so useless for niche topics it’s not even funny… which is the only thing I’d ever want actual AI for in the first place.
so… even if it’s not complete AGI, it’s still extremely helpful for many industries, and extremely disruptive. There are long ways to go with it, but even these intermediate products are massive.
Having said that, it’s also in a bubble or the peak of the hype cycle. That doesn’t mean it’s nothing though. It will cause massive upheaval.
ah “disruptive”
Technically spicy autocorrect is still AI. But technically a simple checkers program on a $5 Chinese gaming console is also AI, as long as it implements just some small aspect of intelligence. That technicality is exploited like crazy by the LLM hypers.
They scraped the internet’s knowledge and want to sell it back to those who actually created it.
Rent-seeking has entirely replaced innovation in modern capitalism.
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.
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.
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.
The wording also struck a nerve because many AI models were trained on enormous amounts of publicly available internet data such as books, articles, forums and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.
That’s much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.
and creative work created by millions of people who were never directly compensated.
That’s much too kind. We were never indirectly compensated, either.
We were never even asked for permission to use our works and words.
Stealing your original work so you can pay for a regurgitated version of it.
…you didn’t get your check?
Came just in time for me and has solved so many issues. I’d suggest calling about it. Anyway, gotta run, christening party for the new boat!
It’s not intelligence
Its the vast, free resource of the internet. Mined, paywalled, repackaged and sold back to you at a premium by rent seeking talentless hacks
Bingo! Calculator and compilation engine.
Every capitalist is a conman.
The only capitalist that isnt, is a socialist
My homelab say otherwise
Exactly what i was thinking but i find this molester moron insulting for even daring to say that to our face.
That is a terrible thing to say about /u/sturmblast
He is enshittfying it before it has even taken off
I was heartened by college graduates booing these assholes.
I will not be buying intelligence from that weirdo lizard. Because I am unfortunately literate.
Literally the future capitalism has always wanted; all common resources seized from the public for the good of private equity.
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.
He just wants money
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.”.
It feels weird thinking of the amazing Spiderman as “back in the day” when I remember the Toby McGuire Spiderman films.
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!
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Putting aside that what they sell is not even inteligence: if they are providing a utility, then let’s regulate them like a utility, e.g. electricity distribution
Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil is a cure for everything.
