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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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[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago

Interesting. In this case not only the free tier house LLM that’s included with with opencode is smarter, also the local model I run on 16GB graphics card can beat Gemini, lol.

[-] tslojr@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've seen people do some pretty cool stuff with LLMs, but any time I've tried using one of the big name ones, I've had the exact same experience of it hallucinating or just straight up ignoring me.

Gemini Pro, however, has been so bad that I'm seriously considering dropping Android after 18 years. Fucker burnt through about a dozen of my image generation allotments because it got stuck in some kind of weird logic loop then tried gaslighting me by telling me it hadn't generated anything.

[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Sounds less then ideal. I honestly never used a current model of those big AI providers, except maybe a bit of ChatGPT 3.5 back in the day. My fiancé uses Claude is mostly satisfied. I played around with opencode and a local model and I‘m mostly impressed. I use it do admin my Linux gaming pc and to teach me Linux.

The local Qwen 3.6 works quite well, does good online research and actually proved me wrong when I thought it hallucinated some fact. Of course it’s no „real“ AI, but it’s useful.

[-] tslojr@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago

I'll have to check that one out. Thanks for the rec!

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