Sam Altman:
A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data center.
But from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.
Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,
And somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that
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ISPs in the US were aiming to do that, since video traffic dominates the web pretty heavily now. But that could be easily abused, so they were slapped away with the net neutrality regulations, which iirc Trump rolled back.
You referred to the megabytes thing in the past tense, yes, but the reasoning applied back then. In fact, gigabit speeds are still not prevalent worldwide (nor just in the US, from what I understand about their shitty ISPs). I can easily saturate the 100 mbps allotted to my cable-connection plan in the neighbourhood that doesn’t provide much choice, and I’m pretty sure mobile connection isn’t better than that in most cases.