Why would society allow or help this psychopath achieve his stupid goals? I want a Disneyland in my backyard, that goal is achievable, I deserve everyone's money.

AGI development

Aka science fiction.

i don't think it's worth making our present worse as it is now for a hypothetical future utopia, even if the chances were quite high (they're not).

People and the environment are suffering now because of big tech's incessant rush for an AI singularity, expensive ram is only a small thing on a huge pile of grievances.

Surely the best and most secure system is one with multiple levels of redundancy? Spreading RAM over a large area means that there is no one single point of failure / single target to attack. Everyone having their own AI would be the best end goal (assuming the technology ever actually starts to provide dividends).

Sam Altman is a notorious liar, his job is to get the press to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt, but not in the usual way - aimed at competitors - but his own company. Because uuuh, big scary AI very powerful, very smart, very super, wouldn't want to be left in the dust, buy now!

The RAM comment he made doesn't actually help with that though, it just pissed people off because the AI hype has caused prices to shoot up and stay up. It's the head of a private company sounding incredibly entitled and tone-deaf. So now he tries to backpedal, probably also because there's real resistance to data center plans.

I think the hype bubble jumped the shark when he announced that he believes that we're already in the age of AGI. We are so clearly not that you'd think that even the dumbest investor would start asking questions. Maybe they'll notice that actual researchers are calling him out on his bullshit too. We are still in the "AI sends you to the gas station on foot because gas is expensive" era and won't be leaving it with the current tech.

Why would RAM suddenly be less or even irrelevant when we would actually have AGO?