Tom's Hardware surfaces Altman's 'terrible' RAM comment
1 Oct 30 12:28 PM · 9d ago · 13 articles · 7 posts · 5 comments · 5 sources · development 1 of 8
Tom's Hardware reported that in a podcast interview Altman said it's 'quite terrible' for people to keep RAM in personal PCs instead of pooling it in data centers, citing better utilization.
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that "it's quite terrible" for people to have RAM in their own PCs when it could go into AI data centers.”
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware
Sam Altman OpenAI CEOOpenAI AI company led by AltmanCheeky Pint YouTube channel that conducted the interview
Mike Masnick Techdirt founder and author of the analysis piece
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What was reported 2 claims about this development
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first by Tom's Hardware, 9d ago · also The Times of India, IGN
3 more headlines
- Phones, laptops and consoles get costlier over memory price hike; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to gadget buyers: Having DRAM in your devices is 'quite terrible' for the world's limited supply The Times of India · 9d ago
- According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 'It's Quite Terrible' For People to Have RAM In Their Own Computers IGN · 9d ago
- OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization Mastodon · 9d ago
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2 outlets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' to have RAM inside PCs when data centers need it
first by Yahoo Tech, 8d ago · also Polygon
1 more headline
- OpenAI Billionaire: PCs are ‘terrible’ when data centers need more memory Polygon.com · 8d ago
What people said 5 voices · verbatim
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In a sense, I think everyone knew it was coming. Historically speaking, in US at least, there initially may be a notable number of upstarts, but those numbers quickly dwindle to form oligopolies. That is how we end up with 3 million cereal types, but 2-3 companies controlling them. The same repeats throughout most industries with an annoying…
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This goes beyond that. For many of us computers are a free time activity/hobby. "You can't enjoy your life because I need all the DRAM for my tech bro fascist view of what the future should be."
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The look on his face looks a lot like Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything
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RAM chip manufacturers are already dedicating most of their capacity to AI data centres, what does he want from us? To take out the RAM from our devices? It wouldn't even be compatible.
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Not all privates are bots and bad actors but every bot and bad actor is private, type shit.
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