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.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days 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?