"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
On the other hand it seems stupid, who ever heard of a water company worth trillions? I doubt what Altman really has in mind is becoming wholly owned by a alliance of municipalities.

I think you are right that they imagine themselves as plantation owners, but then their poor understanding of the real world makes them substitute in something else to be more palatable.