@GergelyOrosz: WTH: Sam Altman complaining that individuals (like me!) are purchasing RAM for our PCs wanting to run local inference (…
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Gergely Orosz criticizes Sam Altman for complaining that individuals buying RAM for local AI inference on their PCs is competing with OpenAI's need to buy more hardware to sell inference at high margins, calling the take 'barking up the wrong tree'.
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WTH: Sam Altman complaining that individuals (like me!) are purchasing RAM for our PCs wanting to run local inference (and do other stuff), because it gets in the way of him buying more RAM to sell inference at 80% margins… this is barking up the wrong tree
morgan — (@morqon): sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“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
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