"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158

There you go, there it is. Yup.

Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) on X

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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Water is life. So is intelligence.

I'm not claiming that they're right, that you are actually buying "intelligence" from them by the meter, I think that's misleading.

But also, the fact that that's the *framing* goes to show to you that they absolutely, completely want it to be, and want to sell intellectual slavery, as far as they can get it.

@cwebber
If we combine AI with dysgenics, we have the perfect explosive blend.
@jlperuyero @cwebber that movie made me very uncomfortable because it felt a little too real, but at least it was set in some distant future, right?, because (d)evolution can't happen that quickly... But now with LLMs, we've find a way to degrade human intelligence on a much faster timescale. 😳
@earthtoneone @cwebber
Five hundred years in the future, I suppose counting from the making of the film (2006). That makes some 15 or 20 generations.
The weak point in the plot is that nobody knows what intelligence is, and what part of it you can inherit.
Sometimes I think that the most important part of intelligence is critical thinking, and that we have already lost that...