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OpenAI CEO says 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM - better at data centers
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:01 pm
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has data centers full of memory, but seemingly it's the 32GB of RAM in your desktop that's the problem. In an interview over beers with the YouTube channel Cheeky Pint, Altman said that local inference, and, by extension, people having DRAM in computers at home, is "quite terrible."
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"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 and being used 5% of the time," Altman said. "You want maximum utilization 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."
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization
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Altman's talk suggests that the company would prefer that more RAM go to OpenAI's data centers rather than home computers, which also sparks enthusiast fears of not being able to own your own hardware or software, but rather rent an agent and a computer in the cloud.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:03 pm to Shexter
Because that isn't fishy
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:06 pm to Shexter
He should just download some more RAM for his data centers
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:06 pm to Shexter
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Altman's talk suggests that the company would prefer that more RAM go to OpenAI's data centers rather than home computers, which also sparks enthusiast fears of not being able to own your own hardware or software, but rather rent an agent and a computer in the cloud.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:07 pm to Spaceman Spiff
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Because that isn't fishy
Future ownership of access to the cloud. Cloud subscription needed to play Minecraft.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:10 pm to Shexter
Dear Sam,
frick off.
frick off.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:13 pm to Shexter
quote:its already here
Future ownership of access to the cloud. Cloud subscription needed to play Minecraft.
Every Nvidia GeForce Now user faces a monthly playtime cap in 2026
YOU'LL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY
so again frick YOU
i'll build my own local LLM and you won't get to see what i'm searching for because its NONE OF YOUR GODDAM BUSINESS This post was edited on 10/30/26 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:13 pm to BottomlandBrew
BoarEd will be along any second to just correct us to use OpenSI instead of AI. That's the important shite
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:15 pm to Shexter
AI ruined the hobby I loved. You can't even build small projects with SBCs anymore without it costing hundreds sometimes due to RAM prices.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:15 pm to Shexter
He can get rekt.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:16 pm to Shexter
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actually, it's quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used 5% of the time,
If he's buying, I'd be glad to sell him some RAM
I wonder what Sam thinks about all the capital sitting in rich people's banks, all the land dedicated to CEOs' vacation homes, all the port space taken up by yachts, all the brainpower spent taking care of it instead of enriching the world etc.
This post was edited on 10/30/26 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:21 pm to Shexter
Didn't we already do this with dumb terminals and everybody fricking hated it?
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:28 pm to Shexter
It's such a waste for people to own a bed, but only sleep in it 8 hours a day without letting me rent it out to strangers for the other 16 hours.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:32 pm to LSU Coyote
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ruined the hobby I loved. You can't even build small projects with SBCs anymore without it costing hundreds
Sorry about your small black cocks hobby downturn.
Pivot to other small cocks in the interim perhaps?
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:41 pm to Shexter
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but rather rent an agent and a computer in the cloud.
This is now where Amazon makes a huge percentage of their profits. Companies rent out their servers from Amazon and they don't have to have a server room or someone inhouse to maintain the servers. Its AWS. Amazon web services and their biggest client is Netflix. If all of a sudden Amazons servers that is used to provide these services were attacked, it would impact some big companies.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:44 pm to Shexter
I pieced my dual Xeon Precision 7820 workstation together in 2022
I recently looked at upgrading the RAM in it and was blown away that the same DDR4 I bought in 2022 is more expensive now.
First time in building computers for the last 20 years where I noticed prices on components not only holding in value, but going up.
I recently looked at upgrading the RAM in it and was blown away that the same DDR4 I bought in 2022 is more expensive now.
First time in building computers for the last 20 years where I noticed prices on components not only holding in value, but going up.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:45 pm to Shexter
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which also sparks enthusiast fears of not being able to own your own hardware or software, but rather rent an agent and a computer in the cloud.
You’ll own nothing and be happy
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:48 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Dear Sam, frick off.
Thankfully I built my PC over a year ago before prices really got out of hand.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:51 pm to Veritas
These threads always remind me I have 32 GB of DDR5 RAM (2x16) I bought for like $100 a few years ago sitting in a drawer.
I bet Atlman would hire ex-Mossed to kill me for the insulting inefficiency
I bet Atlman would hire ex-Mossed to kill me for the insulting inefficiency
This post was edited on 10/30/26 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 10/30/26 at 2:52 pm to Bigdawgb
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wonder what Sam thinks about all the capital sitting in rich people's banks, all the land dedicated to CEOs' vacation homes, all the port space taken up by yachts, all the brainpower spent taking care of it instead of enriching the world etc.
He thinks it’s a problem that regular people take up land for homes that are too big for a small family when they could live in a pod and the land be better suited for a data center rather than a private home. And those pesky middle class tying up capital in retirement savings rather than spending it on his products. All the land and resources should belong to people like him who can use it better than the stupid peons ever will. We should hand it over so they can use it to make us happier than ever
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