Sam Altman:
A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data center.
But from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.
Like you want maximum utilisation 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
TL;DR Guy selling product: “Here’s why owning your own product instead of renting it from me is a terrible idea”
This IS the same argument use for why trains are better then cars.
Maybe your infra needs to become public domain then Sam :)
It’s basically just the argument for socialism, but perverted so that HE owns and controls everything instead of the people/state.
Monolithic control over an industry in the name of efficiency is only possible with checks and balances to keep it running in the public interest. Otherwise it’s just a monopoly.
I’m all for building up high speed rail in the US, but if we were going to give Sam Altman a blank check to do it, no fucking thanks
He is practically begging for nationalization and redistribution of his resources.