Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is really gunning for villain-of-the-year status with PC gamers in particular, but owners of pretty much any computing device everywhere. Altman appeared on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s Cheeky Pint podcast this week, sipping beers and weighing in on the state of AI. Gizmodo covered and analyzed the bulk of Altman’s remarks here, though another moment from the podcast is worthy of a shout-out. Altman thinks it’s “quite terrible” that individual device owners and/or operators of local AIs have access to DRAM, which is already catastrophically expensive due to massive demand from AI data centers like OpenAI’s (and may be nowhere close to peaking ). You see, it’s inefficient not to just let OpenAI handle it. “A lot of people want local inference.