“My words were taken out of context”: OpenAI CEO responds to mockery and criticism directed at him
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
Sam Altman explicitly stated that regular people somehow have far too much RAM that his data centers desperately need, but it turns out people just misunderstood him.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to a wave of criticism following his controversial remarks about RAM usage in personal computers. According to him, his original comments were taken out of context, and he is not at all opposed to users installing as much RAM in their PCs as they want.
I actually want there to be an enormous amount of memory in the world and for people to put as much as they want in their computers. And it is damn annoying to have my words taken out of context.
He also emphasized that he has long advocated for ramping up global memory production. In response to a user's question about why he needs other people's RAM, the OpenAI leader added:
I want you to have a whole lot of RAM. Let's make more.
Amid the discussion, Altman even briefly changed his display name on X to Ram Altman.
The controversy was sparked by Altman's interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast, released on October 29. Back then, he stated that from a global resource allocation perspective, it is inefficient for large amounts of DRAM to sit in regular users' computers, utilized only about 5% of the time. In his view, amid memory shortages, cloud data centers could put it to significantly better use.
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