Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is really gunning for villain-of-the-year status with PC gamers in particular, but owners of pretty much any computing device everywhere. Altman thinks it’s “quite terrible” that individual device owners and/or operators of local AIs have access to DRAM, which is already catastrophically expensive due to massive demand from AI data centers like OpenAI’s (and may be nowhere close to peaking). But there’s a more obnoxious point that doesn’t need excavating: Altman isn’t describing the optimal distribution of resources so much as the distribution of resources optimal to him.

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