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Sam Altman says home PC RAM should be in data centers

techNov 2, 202670148

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the Cheeky Pint podcast (via IGN) that "from a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer." Altman argued individual PCs rarely use all their RAM whereas data centers achieve higher utilization, so memory would be better pooled to serve AI workloads amid a global DRAM shortage. The comments provoked public pushback, with a Reddit thread cited in coverage pushing back against Altman's view and criticizing AI companies more broadly. Analysts quoted in the reporting expect RAM shortages to persist for years, a dynamic that is already driving up consumer component prices and will make building or upgrading personal PCs more expensive going forward.

elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social

They really think it’s all about framing, and they don’t understand that we hate them beautiful of what they are and what they are being used for. I want Sam Altman to keep opening his mouth because it just makes things worse for the AI bubble

422h ago
male to fujoshi transsexual
@foxglove.bsky.social

Damn that's crazy that Sam Altman, known sexual assault enthusiast, doesn't care about whether you consent to the AI he uses to alter your reality.

266h ago
steviebaby🫡
@steviebaby.bsky.social

you know what would solve all these problems? if every american allowed sam altman to confiscate their ram. for the greater good

183h ago
Lova
@lova3d.itch.io

Tell Sam Altman I use my 32GB of RAM to play Morrowind. I want him to know it was me.

95h ago
cprog.bsky.social
@cprog.bsky.social

The personal computer gives an intellectual property creator his/her own means of production. Capitalists don't like workers to own the means of production. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL5S...

43h ago
nachoiskerka.bsky.social
@nachoiskerka.bsky.social

Pictured: Sam Altman coming to get the RAM out of my Akai MPC One.

A cyberman from Doctor Who in its original design. Note their claims of pooling resources for the greater good in stories with this design are very similar to sam altman's claims about AI.
85h ago
🦝 Socks 🐭
@socksfur.bsky.social

So OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead. HIS data centers. *hoists flag*

62h ago
jl
@ltkmr.bsky.social

"Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Screenshot of a Mastodon post: "Please stop anthropomorphizing AI company executives. They're not sentient and they can't actually think. They just predict token sequences using statistical patterns scraped from LinkedIn, X and the Financial Times. The apparent "understanding" is simply a parlor trick: They produce text strings that *sound* plausible, but they don't actually have any understanding of the world. I'll grant that they became a lot more technically impressive when Reinforcement Learning from Investor Sentiment pipelines were introduced, but fundamentally they're still just stochastic bullshit generators. Giving them access to the internet will end up being the most expensive mistake in the history of technology."
32h ago
puckozy.bsky.social
@puckozy.bsky.social

Compute glut, yet they still buy more GPUs. And Sam Altman wants even more ram, either these people are insane or they are pushing a charade in the hope of keeping investor money flowing.

32h ago
TitoShivan
@titoshivan.com

Sam Altman: personal computers only use all their RAM about 5% of the time Me: You only use 5% of your personal wealth. B*tch

32h ago
☆Jennїe S Jonzen☆
@astartiel.substack.com

Me: 😭 when I try to play Fallout 76 on a five-year-old computer, not barely meant to have 5 tabs open, let alone the 200+ I have open on any of my browsers. Also, Sam Altman can have the RAM on my computer when he prys them from my cold, dead motherboard.

14h ago
xs4me2
@xs4me2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-all-the-ram-should-belong-to-me-so-i-can-charge-people-to-use-it-2000833412 Somebody should tell the guy to go and take a flying leap...

3h ago
ampallanguk.bsky.social
@ampallanguk.bsky.social

Tell Sam Altman it was me, with my 64G of DDR4 ram:

22h ago
Vinnk
@vinnk.bsky.social

I want to join the Sam Altman meme and post "I've got 64GB of RAM and I'm only playing Sam & Max Hit the Road" But because of Sam Altman, I can't afford more than 16GB RAM. And with all the tabs I have open, I'm actually using all of that. Still gonna play Sam & Max Hit the Road though...

21h ago
Jukka Niiranen
@jukkan.bsky.social

Tell Sam Altman that I use 64GB of RAM to resurrect Windows Phone 7.5 app for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. I want him to know it was me.

24h ago
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tech.yahoo.comOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' to have RAM inside PCs when data centers need it — but consumers aren't impressedcryptoversenews.euSam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your deskmadrobot.blogAbu Dhabi signs four deals with OpenAI during Sam Altman’s visit, led by oil giant ADNOC

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