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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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[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world -3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is kind of bullshit. It doesn't allow a corporate goon with an MBA to hire a virtual desktop developer but it does amplify the work one can do. If you think it can't do anything you are pretty far off from reality.

Writing tests faster. Writing docs faster. Writing exploratory code faster even if you don't ultimately use the code. Splitting out general utility functions that are nice to have but which you wouldn't think. Refactoring.

Maybe if you are top 1% working on hard problems and mentoring it just slows you down meanwhile the bottom 50% has lots of work to do which it really does help with

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I’m genuinely curious which part of your reply we should interpret as intelligence?

If anything, these are Iterations, which I’ll add to the list.