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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says its “terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM” instead of shoving it all in datacentres (frvr.com)
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[–] 23 points 1 hour ago* (5 children)

If we didn't have RAM in our phones and PC's, how would we use the data centers?
It's almost as if Sam Altman is a moron.
Also a lot of the hardware for data centers is just laying around unused, because the data centers aren't even built.

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  • [–] 7 points 48 minutes ago (3 children)

    He’s referring specifically to local RAM used to run local AI models, whichl he argues is unused most of time. Say if you use your local AI for 4 hours a day, it’s idle for 20. Where the same model in a cloud might serve users across time zones 24/7.

    It’s a similar argument about private car ownership, where a car might be used 5% of the day for a lot of people while 95% of the time it requires storage space, aka a parking spot somewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 31 minutes ago (1 child)

    OK thanks for the explanation. Still having it not used at all, because the data center isn't build yet is worse. Also calling it "everybody" is weird. Unless he means phone and PC, and the very specialized AI run on such systems do not require extra RAM.
    So he remains a selfish moron.
    Companies running their own decentralized AI models on their own servers are the competition. Whining about the competition is also moronic.

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  • [–] 2 points 23 minutes ago

    Yes, memory prices are affecting a lot more than people who want to run local models on high-memory desktops. That’s a small minority compared to all computer uses affected by the memory prices.

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  • [–] 1 point 36 minutes ago

    there is nothing stopping him for mounting our electricity costs in order to tap into this 'unused ressource'. If they are really working for the sake of humanity, nothing is stopping him to support the ressource providers as a kind of community project. Thats what BOINC has been doing for the sake of scientific progress for years.

    i mean, if all they are doing is renting the resources in a data center, so can he with ours. They should be fine with not owning things really.

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    • [–] 1 point 10 minutes ago

    It's also a shame that he gets some of the air we all need, but here we are.

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    [–] 7 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    He might have something resembling a point if he were running a nonprofit.

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    • [–] 2 points 37 minutes ago

    Is this because he's one of those techno cult weirdos that thinks it's ethically wrong to do anything to impede ai progress because it'll anger the future omnipotent/omniscient general ai entity we create and they'll destroy us?

    It's probably just because "we want all the money, you shouldn't have any". But even if it's the first thing it's mighty convenient that that view benefits him financially

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    [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    Consistent with his anti-open weight model stance

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