Comment by makeitdouble
4 hours ago
The quote wasn't weird and made total sense in Altman's POV. It was just egoistic and myopic regarding how people feel about ownership and independence.
4 hours ago
The quote wasn't weird and made total sense in Altman's POV. It was just egoistic and myopic regarding how people feel about ownership and independence.
It has nothing to do with his POV or even ego. It was an objectively true fact. GPUs in data centers do get more utilization than those used locally. That's all he was saying.
Something can be a true fact and still be an ill-advised or tone deaf thing to say.
Especially when you take into account that people are largely unconcerned about true facts, and will gladly misquote or misinterpret you just in order to be outraged.
This is techno utilitarianism.
Also, a lot of things are true but what truths you choose to broadcast can tell us what you care about. E.g it's also true that we'd all be richer if sam altman shared is wealth with us, lets take a few seconds to think why he's not saying this truth, after all it's an objectively true fact.
Is it really "all he was saying" when he's single handedly responsible for creating a worldwide RAM and NAND shortage?
He said/implied that we would have shortage either way (without data center buildout, but everyone who wants access to LLM does private/local inference), which doesn't sound far fetched.
Single handedly? I'd say the the people using (or forcing others to use) the models, therefore justifying the need for them, play a part in it.