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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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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

ever since feudalism fell, dipshits all over the world have had one thing in mind: bring it back. now they're almost there. and the peasants are all too ready to give it back.

[–] aamram@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 16 hours ago

There's a name for that already: technofeudalism.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Dude outside of the technology difference. We are at a point most surfs in feudalistic societies had less problems to deal with then we do.

Like when you start accounting for betterment in medicine and farming alone. The avg joe would likely have a less stressful life under feudalism. Most people just want to be left alone, work an honest job, and have time to raise a family or at least spend time with them.

The problem is not that they're trying to turn us back into a feudalistic society. They're trying to turn us into a corpitocracy or an oligarchy. While, a feudalistic society can have a lot of the same similarities as an oligarchy or corporatocracy. They tend to be far more for the people and fair.

Feudalism would unironically be an absolute ideal outcome if we had to choose between the three.

Is at least in a feudalistic society. The farmers would own the their own land and there's not much the big corporations would be able to do about that. It would actually elevate a lot of farmers in large landowners onto the same playing field as the big businesses that have a lot of money but not a lot of land.

If anything it would put them at a disadvantage cuz now they would have to fight an uphill battle to gain more land that they need to expand for these data centers.

Ideally we don't go to any of them lol

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

Serfs WORK the land lords OWN it. If you make $100 a month working the land the lord takes $80 as rent.

Better not have a bad weather year and only earn $50 a month as you will be kicked off the land and replaced with another farmer that can produce $100 or more.