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Sam Altman wants your RAM — there are Compute Campuses to build (pivot-to-ai.com)
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by Amy Castor and David Gerard

the chatbot will alter physics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf549Gms744&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261105-sam-altman-wants-your-ram-there-are-compute-campuses-to-build - podcast

time: 5 min 28 sec

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

Altman performed outrage that his comment was taken out of context — he was specifically talking about people running AI rigs at home. You should just outsource your work to OpenAI, see. It’s much more efficient. [Twitter, archive]

Let them eat low end GPUs ass retraction.

Self-replicating data centers are blatantly bullshit but also such a failure to read the room, nobody wants them even now that you don't have to worry they might decide to go through mitosis overnight.