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Just what is the point?

To rub Altman's nose in the fact that we have RAM that he wishes he had.

Or, more likely (since I doubt he's ever going to see one of these emails), to make us feel a bit better about ourselves after Altman said (in effect) that what we want doesn't matter.

Have you not seen the endless posts pointing out that the RAM story was fake exaggerated nonsense?

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMsUcCYNKqY&t=1765s

"A lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that like 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 computers. And so we're not gonna 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 5% of the time."

I've seen the video where he says those words out loud, on mic.

I’d never heard the first part, I think that makes it even worse because it’s in the context of people breaking free from the feudal AI system. Yikes.

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