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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47387000

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 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't think that Sam guy has a good understanding of what intelligence is. One test for that is to know the difference between a for-profit and a non-profit organization. I'm starting to believe that this guy will say anything in order for the masses to purchase his questionable product.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure that's well established

Didn't he pretend to not pay himself/not care about money, and then was filmed driving a multi-million $$ super car?

He's one in a long line of compulsive liars

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He doesn't pay himself ... on a technicality. Rich folk in general don't spend money like you or I do. They don't even actually have money like you or I do. They're leveraged to the hilt using their stock shares to finance loans and then live off the loans. (This is a tax evasion thing.) So he can claim he's not taking a salary or being paid even while spending a million dollars a day.

And once they have this much "fuck you" money lying around for free, they don't care about money. It would be like you caring about air. It's just ... there.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be like you caring about air. It's just ... there.

Only because we've not yet poisoned it to the point where breathable air becomes the most obscene pay-to-live feature.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 month ago

Don't worry. They're working on it.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

OpenAI hasn't been a non-profit since the Microsoft board takeover. Also formally, not only in practice.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

To a devout capitalist, anything and everything can and should be turned into a commodity. First, we need people to get hooked on the convenience of not having to think for themselves, let their natural intelligence wither from disuse, then charge them for the privilege-turned-necessity of outsourced intelligence.

His understanding of just about anything is focused on two questions:

  • "How can I sell this?"
  • "How can I use this to sell other things?"