Sam Altman says it's 'quite terrible' that you're using RAM in your PC: 5 Things Windows Users Should Know
Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you'll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci
Quick overview
Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you'll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.
The details
For regular users the practical effect is simple: routine tasks get faster, while the heavy lifting happens in the cloud. Developers are the quiet winners here: the same APIs usually show up in third-party apps shortly after. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman would rather have RAM put into data centers Altman says it's 'quite terrible' that RAM is sitting in individual PCs The comments haven't gone down well with consumers online The increasing demands from data centers powering AI engines has plunged us into a global RAM shortage crisis , and the CEO of one of the companies responsible thinks the memory that is available should be in data centers rather than individual PCs.
Bottom line
- Keep your system and drivers current — most ai changes require the latest versions.
- Check settings after major updates: defaults sometimes reset without warning.
- Backup before big version jumps; it costs minutes and saves hours.
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