OpenAI Boss Sam Altman Addresses Backlash After Saying It Was 'Terrible' for People to Have RAM in Their PCs

OpenAI boss Sam Altman has addressed the backlash over comments he made in a recent interview, where he said he thought it was “terrible” for people to have RAM in their PCs rather than a data center.

Speaking to YouTuber Cheeky Pint, Altman said: "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. Like, 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."

The comments were widely ridiculed, with many suggesting that, whether he intended it or not, Altman sounded like he wanted to take away personal ownership of memory and force society to use resources for the benefit of AI companies such as his. …