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.

  • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Sounds less then ideal. I honestly never used a current model of those big AI providers, except maybe a bit of ChatGPT 3.5 back in the day. My fiancé uses Claude is mostly satisfied. I played around with opencode and a local model and I‘m mostly impressed. I use it do admin my Linux gaming pc and to teach me Linux.

    The local Qwen 3.6 works quite well, does good online research and actually proved me wrong when I thought it hallucinated some fact. Of course it’s no „real“ AI, but it’s useful.