Sam Altman:

A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data center.

But from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.

Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,

And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that

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Ram is so cheap to make that until the AI demand companies basically had to create new levels of density/speed and sell for less just to keep the business afloat. This is like when cellphone companies tried to claim megabytes were a precious finite resource. We live in a post scarcity society and these billion assholes are like “well that just won’t do”.

It reminds me of that kid we all know who just learned economics from school house rock and then goes “now if I can simply find every evee Pokémon card in the world and burn them all except for the one I have, I’ll be rich!”

It’s just so frustrating to see this sheer stupid amount of greed all of the time. Thanks for coming to my TEDex talk.

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