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'People will buy intelligence from us on a meter': ChatGPT's Sam Altman's AI vision worries critics (www.tomsguide.com)

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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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[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Description of the author at the end of the article had me howling. I'll just leave it here for y'all to enjoy.

Amanda Caswell is the AI Editor at Tom's Guide and one of today’s leading voices in AI and technology. A celebrated contributor to various news outlets, her sharp insights and relatable storytelling have earned her a loyal readership. Amanda’s work has been recognized with prestigious honors, including outstanding contribution to media. Known for her ability to bring clarity to even the most complex topics, Amanda seamlessly blends innovation and creativity, inspiring readers to embrace the power of AI and emerging technologies. As a certified prompt engineer, she continues to push the boundaries of how humans and AI can work together. Beyond her journalism career, Amanda is a long-distance runner and mom of three. She lives in New Jersey.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"certified prompt engineer" lol

[–] KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 38 points 1 month ago

'I'm somewhat of a certified slop wrangler myself' - Amanda

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

I'm a L3 certified cum dumpster operator

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That description was probably written by the slop machine too 🤣

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 6 points 1 month ago

It almost certainly was. That's what slop slingers do.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's a lot of words just to say you're a sellout slop slinger, Amanda.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the same way they rely on electricity, Wi-Fi or running water.

I can't produce electricity, wifi, or (very much) running water with my own body. But I've got a pretty decent source of intelligence right there inside my head. Why do I need to pay some meter for it?

[–] KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How dare you? Did you even take a second to consider the economy at all? You can't just think yourself!

[–] 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?"

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's dystopian, but he's not entirely wrong.

My teacher friends are trying to sound the alarm: Kids who can't even process information written on the board in front of them, being passed through the grades without being able to read, or can't focus on anything for more than 60 seconds.

And the common refrain is: "If AI can do this for me why do I need to learn it at all?"

These modern tech products are designed to damage cognitive ability and replace it.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not only replace it. They make it so that people are dependent on it. So much that they can't form any original thought, because doing so would allow them some degree of individuality, the power to separate themselves from the system. The AI Nazi techbros can't have independent thought, individuality, or anything that would get in the way of their neverending quest to conform all thought and will to their own.

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

[–] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

It can't burst soon enough.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago (21 children)

I'm still just so curious who is paying to use any llm?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People like this:

comic about brainrot

[–] newton@feddit.online 3 points 1 month ago

Ty, best cartoon I've seen today

[–] BillyCrystalMeth@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Businesses who don't want their data used to training. Gotta pay the "trust me bro" fee

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There’s no way in hell they don’t backdoor data lmaoo

[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Many academics around me have a paid plan of LLM of some sort, most are on $100 plan some are on $200, all of them are getting reimbursed for their plan.

Most of them uses it to optimize code, generate visualization, or formalize pen and paper proof.

I hated it, and don't use much of it myself. But it seems too useful for these people and it is hard to stop them. As an example, formalizing a pen and paper proof can take an expert weeks, if not month of work, whereas it only takes codex a week.

But I do feel this success is tied to the nature and value of academia, and might not transfer to other fields or industrial projects:

we usually have tiny codebases: it is not uncommon to have a 10-line algorithm with a 70-page paper explaining its correctness
90%, if not more, of the codes are proof of concepts, without the expectation for long term maintainance.
the work is highly specialized, everyone is running out of time, and there is high expectation of the outcome of the work: in our recent work, we do have an expert in formalization, but he doesn't have enough time, so the grad student formalized the project using codex. The overall architecture is probably much much worse than what would have been done by the expert. One interesting outcome is that codex is able to prove a more general result than the expert intended: not because it found a better proof, but because it is much better at bruteforcing a solution than human.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hate to hit you with such a tangentially related query to your main point, but what is "formalizing a proof", and why is there such a discrepancy between the time it might take an expert (weeks if not months) vs an LLM?

(It probably goes without saying, but my college career was spent in the Humanities, where there was not much emphasis on proofs, formal or informal, so I'm curious how the other half lives.)

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

As an example, formalizing a pen and paper proof can take an expert weeks, if not month of work, whereas it only takes codex a week.

And how badly does it hallucinate while doing so?

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[–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 month ago

I would not pay for slop... I don't use slop even for free. I opt out of slop... I run from slop. If slop is all we got then I will stare at the wall holding my hog.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look you stupid bastard, you need to own something before you can sell it.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

laughs in veolia

also laughs in nestle

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

He followed by saying, "and then I, Sam Altman, will have the most intelligence in the world. Then you'll see, mommy!"

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, they're going to pay you? With what money? From what job?

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[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Like, this is geniunely terrifying...I can't wait for this vision to never happen. Despite their best efforts to try to fuck the world up...They'll get bored when people fail to latch on to this latest madness or have become useless because LLMs have rotted their brains to nothing. At least this is what I hope as I resist with every fiber of my fucking being. I think this is one of the worst things that techbros have come out with in a long time. Can't wait to see what the next torment nexus is going to be...

[–] karashta@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First, they'd have to design something that actually outputs truth instead of what is statistically likely from word association.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Why? The kids aren't learning to tell the difference.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

We’re setting up toll booths on information we stole! You’re gonna subsidize it! Yay!

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I'm starting to think the intelligence of these AI bros is itself pretty artificial.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I'd rather shoot my computer and then myself before doling out a subscription to these TechnoFascists for LLMslop.

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