cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47387000
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.
He followed by saying, “and then I, Sam Altman, will have the most intelligence in the world. Then you’ll see, mommy!”
I’d rather shoot my computer and then myself before doling out a subscription to these TechnoFascists for LLMslop.
It’s dystopian, but he’s not entirely wrong.
My teacher friends are trying to sound the alarm: Kids who can’t even process information written on the board in front of them, being passed through the grades without being able to read, or can’t focus on anything for more than 60 seconds.
And the common refrain is: “If AI can do this for me why do I need to learn it at all?”
These modern tech products are designed to damage cognitive ability and replace it.
Not only replace it. They make it so that people are dependent on it. So much that they can’t form any original thought, because doing so would allow them some degree of individuality, the power to separate themselves from the system. The AI Nazi techbros can’t have independent thought, individuality, or anything that would get in the way of their neverending quest to conform all thought and will to their own.
Oh, they’re going to pay you? With what money? From what job?
That’s what the intelligence is for, duh
My question is similar, once the knowledge base has become obsolete, and nobody is studying or doing research because nobody can afford tuition, what does AI do? Just keep repackaging the same shit?
We’re setting up toll booths on information we stole! You’re gonna subsidize it! Yay!
