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
Scary to think what the actually enshittified version will be like…
It could go bust first. The reason he’s talking so much is because he needs the attention to hide the fact that OpenAI doesn’t really have any real advantage anymore. Claude models tend to be faster and Chinese models tend to be cheaper (especially since they’re open weight so there are many providers for any given model if you can’t or don’t want to self host. You can get latest Qwen for a tenth of the price of latest GPT on openrouter right now. Even Claude Opus is marginally cheaper than GPT.
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
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.
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!
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And then it tells you what was in the cinema at the point the AI was trained.
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
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.
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.
Yeah, I’ve got like 10 people ahead of me
They scraped the internet’s knowledge and want to sell it back to those who actually created it.
Rent-seeking has entirely replaced innovation in modern capitalism.
Innovation was only ever a small part. Rent-seeking is more fundamental to capitalism than “innovation” is. It’s just more brazen than we remember from our childhoods.
Paving Paradise in 3,2,1…
I can’t wait to lance the AI bubble like a doggone perineal abscess.
Literally the future capitalism has always wanted; all common resources seized from the public for the good of private equity.
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…
The dude changes his pricing model everytime he’s interviewed. Dude has no idea what he wants to do, so long as it’s billable.
He just wants money
I was heartened by college graduates booing these assholes.
ever since feudalism fell, dipshits all over the world have had one thing in mind: bring it back. now they’re almost there. and the peasants are all too ready to give it back.
There’s a name for that already: technofeudalism.
Dude outside of the technology difference. We are at a point most surfs in feudalistic societies had less problems to deal with then we do.
Like when you start accounting for betterment in medicine and farming alone. The avg joe would likely have a less stressful life under feudalism. Most people just want to be left alone, work an honest job, and have time to raise a family or at least spend time with them.
The problem is not that they’re trying to turn us back into a feudalistic society. They’re trying to turn us into a corpitocracy or an oligarchy. While, a feudalistic society can have a lot of the same similarities as an oligarchy or corporatocracy. They tend to be far more for the people and fair.
Feudalism would unironically be an absolute ideal outcome if we had to choose between the three.
Is at least in a feudalistic society. The farmers would own the their own land and there’s not much the big corporations would be able to do about that. It would actually elevate a lot of farmers in large landowners onto the same playing field as the big businesses that have a lot of money but not a lot of land.
If anything it would put them at a disadvantage cuz now they would have to fight an uphill battle to gain more land that they need to expand for these data centers.
Ideally we don’t go to any of them lol
Serfs WORK the land lords OWN it. If you make $100 a month working the land the lord takes $80 as rent.
Better not have a bad weather year and only earn $50 a month as you will be kicked off the land and replaced with another farmer that can produce $100 or more.
Is at least in a feudalistic society. The farmers would own the their own land and there’s not much the big corporations would be able to do about that.
Sadly, in the feudal age peasants and serfs did not own the land. They worked the land and paid rent to their lord, who actually owned it.
The land is the “means of production”, and the landlords exist solely to extract value from it.
In the modern era, the digital ecosystem is a new means of production. We are the digital tenants, and they are the digital landlords. Nothing has changed, although for a brief period of time in the 90’s and early 2000’s the wall street capitalists didn’t think the internet was anything more than a fad and things were good, but e-commerce was just too lucrative for them to ignore forever.
