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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says You Having DRAM Instead Of Data Centers Is
"Terrible"
OpenAI執行長Sam Altman稱，使用DRAM而非資料中心是「糟糕的」。

https://www.thegamer.com/openai-ceo-sam-altman-consumers-having-dram-terrible/

PCs, consoles, phones, and all other consumer-facing tech are in crisis, as
AI data centers continue to swallow global memory demand in what has been
dubbed the 'RAMpocalypse.' There has been plenty of humming and hawing over
when prices will finally settle and computing will become affordable again,
especially as we look down the barrel of $1,000+ home consoles. Even OpenAI
CEO Sam Altman is concerned... just not about consumers.


Altman argued in an interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast (via FRVR) that the
DRAM shortage isn't the fault of data centers, but people daring to have
memory in their own rigs for locally-run models. In so many words, the data
centers eating up supply aren't the issue, you are.


"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have
everyone have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their
own computer. And be used 5% of the time," Altman said.
「從全球資源分配的角度來看，讓每個人都把世界上有限的DRAM記憶體閒置在自己的電腦
裡，而使用率卻只有5%，這其實非常糟糕，」Altman說。

Altman isn't strictly talking about gamers or everyday consumers, but it's
not a leap to suggest that him referring to everyone having "a bunch of the
world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer" would apply to
those groups, not just users with locally-run open-source AI models.


By his logic, having 32GB of RAM sitting in your rig for gaming is a complete
waste of global supply. Why let consumers use up all that precious memory
when it could be packed into a data center so that people can cheat on their
homework assignments and generate deepfakes to harass women online?


“A lot of people want local inference,” Altman said. “And somehow, they
assume that the problem is solved now. Because we are going to have
open-source models. We’re going to be able to run them on our own computers.
And so we’re not going to need all the stuff [DRAM] in the data center.


“You want maximum utilization in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with
this very constrained environment,” he continued. “And somehow everyone’s,
many people’s intuition is the opposite of that.”
他繼續說道：“如果你要應對這種資源高度受限的環境，你肯定希望最大限度地利用雲端
資源。但不知為何，很多人的直覺卻恰恰相反。”

Altman argues that "we all have a shared interest" due to the world's limited
silicon capacity, and that AI will discover efficiency gains and become a
vital, everyday part of computing. Except, in this hypothetical future,
nobody will be able to afford computers. It's a future that many are
concerned about, where, instead of having local computers, everything is run
through the cloud.


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