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.

  • Final Remix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Seriously. I’ve used it a couple times at work (in education) solely because i needed to fit a rubric in our LMS and the fucking UI to do it means I would’ve spent an hour, whereas the API just filled shit in as placeholders and editing was faster than creating.

    Otherwise, I do my work by hand. I even set up excel sheets to do stuff for me like flag grade patterns or grade exams with a typed-in key. It’s almost fun, but I work with so many people who insist that “claude can do it” but then can’t have a followup conversation about what we supposedly discussed via email.