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

Comparing intelligence to electricity or water suggests a few things:

Always available - not something you “own,” but something you tap into whenever needed.

Metered consumption - you pay for usage, like compute, tokens, or API calls, rather than buying software once.

Utility scale dependence - it becomes embedded in daily life and business operations to the point where people stop thinking about using AI and just expect it to be there.

I still meet people today who question whether AI is going to have a significant impact.

They have no idea why is coming.

Via https://backtest.substack.com/p/sam-altman-we-see-a-future-where