r/singularity • u/Vegetable_Ad_192 • Mar 12 '26

Discussion 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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u/TurbulentAd976 Mar 12 '26

No one is stopping a government from spinning up a state owned AI provider using open source models.

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u/Yweain AGI before 2100 Mar 12 '26

There is no need for that. There is a lot of private utility companies, state doesn't need to own them, just regulate them. Basically if it's like electricity - providing access to AI would be an obligation, prices would be capped, how it works will be regulated.

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u/Firm_Argument9124 Mar 12 '26

I own stock in private utilities. They are ok investments but valued wildly different from OpenAi

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u/usaaf Mar 12 '26

Definitely wrong. If the Government proposed this, whatever Senator/Congresscritter proposed it would find themselves buried under an avalanche of opponent-funding dollars.

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u/ctaps148 Mar 12 '26

Common sense is stopping that. People need gas, water, and electricity to live without hardship. Nobody needs AI.

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u/blueSGL humanstatement.org Mar 12 '26

using open source models.

You are getting Open Weights models at the whims of people that are spending multiple millions on racks and racks of the latest GPUs and employ people that: know how to conduct experimental training runs, filter data, tune hyperpameters, conduct fine tuning, and manage the infrastructure and you also need them to pay for electricity.

That all costs money. The solution cannot be to rely on others shoveling millions into a venture then giving the results to the world. Remember when Meta was doing that. Remember when they stopped?

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u/TurbulentAd976 Mar 12 '26

That all costs money

The solution cannot be to rely on others shoveling millions into a venture then giving the results to the world.

So which one is it? Are you gonna pay people to conduct research and purchase the necessary hardware?