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

perfect as a sockpuppet for the anti-christ thiel.

[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Bro you can't even run a publicly traded company. Don't even say the word "utility". Fuck outta here.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This is fine.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

It's a GOOD thing for Samuel Alterman that Intelligence ISNT something you could get WITHOUT AI! People don't know that even PLATO had AI to Help Him!

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't understand how there's ever a business model since people can just run their own models locally.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you wanted to run something at the quality of the best models its many many thousands of dollars.

The smaller models have their place, but have their own problems.

I do like what Apple is doing with their unified memory making things more accessible, but its not cheap, just cheaper.

I think you can run a decent sized deepseek for under 5k, and a top notch one for around 10k?

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No they won’t.

[–] Mr_Wobble@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How well does the Sam Altman work if all of its blood is outside of its body?

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