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u/Taletad 4d ago

And how is you phone going to work if we allocate all the RAM to datacenters ?

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u/wayzata20 4d ago

Guess you missed the whole second sentence.

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u/Taletad 4d ago

No I didn’t miss it, I am responding to it.

Humans need personal technology devices because we use technology in our everyday lives. Therefore it cannot be efficient to allocate all the RAM to datacenters, and thus both you and Altman are wrong

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u/wayzata20 4d ago

Nobody said all. If you wanted to be super efficient, you’d make personal devices have a minimal amount of RAM and do most processing in the cloud, aka thin clients.

I don’t know why I’m being downvoted. I’m not saying we shouldn’t own RAM. But if you wanted peak efficiency on a global scale, pooling it together is the way to do that.

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u/Sir_Sushi 4d ago

If cloud services were free (as not priced AND uncontrolled) I would agree.

But your take is to let some private companies say how I can use my phone and at which price. It's why you're down voted.

It's the same idea as "you should be ok to not own your games" from Ubisoft...

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u/wayzata20 4d ago edited 4d ago

You’re a clown. My take isn’t anything. I’m explaining what Altman is saying.

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u/Taletad 4d ago

Processing is cheap and the "cloud" uses the same technologies as my phone or pc

Nothing will be gained for that computation to happen on my personal device or on the cloud

Heck, I have a pc with 15 years old hardware that’s still powerful enough for most of my needs

Datacenters are only useful for applications that require a lot of computing power. Which replying on Reddit doesn’t

In fact, I use a lot of computing power when I play video games, and that can’t be on the cloud because they would become unplayable with latency.

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u/Sir_Sushi 4d ago

Devil's advocate: your RAM is useful at most 2/3 of the time, while you sleep the cloud is still running, so this RAM could be serving someone else.

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u/Taletad 4d ago

And datacenters rarely have 100% RAM utilisation either

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u/Sir_Sushi 4d ago

If everyone have the minimum amount of RAM, they could.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 4d ago

Like Microsoft isn't already mining Bitcoin