Hi Professor Karn,
I just saw this quote from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter,” and it evoked similar thoughts and feelings out of me as reading the end of Civilization and Its Discontents, Lyotard, and just about every other text we discussed in class last semester…
Alexander Karn
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