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.
I will not be buying intelligence from that weirdo lizard. Because I am unfortunately literate.
He is enshittfying it before it has even taken off
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
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.
Toby MemeGuire
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
First hit’s free, man
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.
Americans will buy on a inch!
I can’t wait to lance the AI bubble like a doggone perineal abscess.
Yeah? hows that panning out so far?
lol no they won’t. People aren’t using it free.
What a dumb person
perfect as a sockpuppet for the anti-christ thiel.
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.
Every capitalist is a conman.
The only capitalist that isnt, is a socialist
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.
I have bad news about the chances you will ever become a billionaire.
Another desperate attempt to monetize. AI bubble-burst, here we come!
I cant believe it hasnt burst yet, so artificially held together by hopes, dreams, and unhealthy amounts of soulless cash…
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.
google trains thier AI/Open AI on reddit mostly
I’m interested to see what kind of hardware will produce “good enough” AI capabilities in a couple years as things are refined and tuned further. The gap between the absolutely massive commercial models and open source models keeps shifting but I don’t have the same fear that I had a few years ago that it might not be possible to get good results from anything less than millions of dollars worth of hardware.
For real. It’s like imagining metered electrical generation becoming the norm if solar was already cheaper and easier to install. Like if it wasn’t for decades of hydro and fossil fuel being the cheaper more flexible option it never would of made sense to focus so much on metered connections in the first place (and increasingly making less sense now…).
They will have to have some enforced mechanism to “franchise the sunshine” as they old saying went to prevent a world where they (big SaaS AI) are not clearly the option of last resort.
Even big corp and government world is increasingly “sovereign AI” focused now, just like hybrid cloud almost always makes more sense at certain level of IT infrastructure maturity.
