Sam Altman says people may someday “buy intelligence on a meter” like electricity or water and critics say the vision sounds more dystopian than innovative.

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.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    10 hours ago

    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.”.
      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 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

    • NickwithaC@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 hours ago

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

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        9 minutes 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!