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Sam Altman: "Local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources" (twitee.co)

submitted 2 days ago by Shatur@discuss.tchncs.de to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works

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Sam Altman:

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 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 five percent of the time.

Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,

And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that

TL;DR Guy selling product: "Here's why owning your own product instead of renting it from me is a terrible idea"

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 day ago

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 five percent of the time.

Why is it terrible for us plebeians to have our own RAM, huh?

Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment

WHY IS IT SUPPLY-CONSTRAINED, ALTMAN? WHY IS THERE CURRENTLY A RAM SHORTAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?

Nobody wants the fucking cloud and that's why major tech companies are forcing it on them without asking, and burying the opt-out if it's offered at all.

And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that

Gee I wonder why our intuitions don't align with your "Give me everything and have nothing" philosophy...

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