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A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management

By Nick Indge, Ars Technica

A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory management

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Sam Altman's recent comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast inspired developer Iain Kay to create a satirical script that allows users to email the OpenAI CEO once per day if more than 10 percent of their system RAM is reported as available. Ram-Altman is described by its creator as a "parody project" launched in response to Altman's viral remarks about RAM in your personal PC. As reported by The Verge, on the October 29 episode recorded with Stripe President John Collison, Altman said, "A lot of people want local inference. 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 computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff…

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