Panicked Sam Altman Reverses Position as Walls Close In, Says People Should Be Able to Own RAM

During a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some baffling comments that really hit a nerve on social media. The billionaire said that it didn’t make sense for individual people to run their own AI models at home and that all of their RAM chips were far better off being used inside the industry’s widely-reviled data centers. “But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of [dynamic RAM] sitting in their own computer,” he said. The bizarre missive drew a heated reaction, especially among PC enthusiasts who’ve watched in sorrow as computer parts have become unaffordable thanks to the AI industry’s unrelenting hunger for chips.