Thoughts on Sam Altman & his take on RAM shortages

It’s no secret that I am not a fan of ‘AI’… Or rather what folks like Sam Altman are selling as AI. What I have realized is that I am actually not anti-AI, I am actually more focused on the real downsides of the hyped-up uses of AI and am against those, rather than the more interesting advances actually being made in the industry and the advances likely to come in the future. We are nowhere near actual intelligence but if you listen to Altman you will hear that AI is here and we should give them all the money so that they can run intelligence as a service. The guy is dumb as rocks and absolutely a terrible human being. He is also so taken by his own ‘intelligence’ that the statements he make are absolutely tone deaf and horrible. In a recent interview he stated that “it’s “quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply” of DRAM sitting in personal computers.” The cost of RAM has more than doubled because he bought all the supply a while back and hard-drive…

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