OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that "it's quite terrible" for people to have RAM in their own PCs when it could go into AI data centers.
This guy is reinventing from first principles the whole utopian centralized society industrialists early last century imagined and advocated. Only back then they were thinking houses and such were inefficient and giant towers of porcelain with mass transit for all the workers to and from their factories was the obvious future for efficiency.
Funnily you’ll never see a guy like this take this to its logical conclusion which is of course: destroy cars, destroy car infrastructure, build mass transit everywhere and build dense housing. Because that steps on the toes of other bourgeoisie including the big trans-atlantic financial ones.
This guy is reinventing from first principles the whole utopian centralized society industrialists early last century imagined and advocated. Only back then they were thinking houses and such were inefficient and giant towers of porcelain with mass transit for all the workers to and from their factories was the obvious future for efficiency.
Funnily you’ll never see a guy like this take this to its logical conclusion which is of course: destroy cars, destroy car infrastructure, build mass transit everywhere and build dense housing. Because that steps on the toes of other bourgeoisie including the big trans-atlantic financial ones.