Sam Altman on how he imagines the future of AI: OpenAI has a fundamental belief in …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that the future of AI can resemble a basic service that people use everyday, similar to water or electricity. Speaking at BlackRock’s US Infrastructure Summit last week, Altman explained how he believes AI could eventually be delivered as a widely available resource that users access on demand. “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for,” Altman said, adding the AI company has a “fundamental belief in abundance of intelligence”.

“Fundamentally our business and I think the business of every other model provider is going to look like selling tokens,” Altman said.