you mean a computing pool, like SETI@home since the late 90s?
absolutely no need to make this idea stink of a crypto scam.
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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 month agoWhat do you think about the possibility of decentralized AI through blockchain so that you could pay some tokens or something like that to rent the GPUs to run your AI for as long as you wish to instead of having to buy all the hardware and assemble it yourself?
grozzle@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can do already do it but there isn’t really any need for a blockchain. I personally use runpod but there’s vaste.ai and a few others.
It’s usually quite cheap.
x2Zero7@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Tbh it’s just hard to see the value proposition in the age of cloud computing. I think aspects of the underlying technology are cool but basically every crypto project that comes to mind has been an actual scam. Sure there’s eth and RDNR that was built on top of it but why should i spend what will ultimately be more money in periods of high demand (gas goes up when more people use the network) when i can just plug my credit card into amazon or microsoft AND get the benefit of infosec regulation like PCI-DSS. Crypto just doesn’t ever inspire confidence because bad actors consistently shit in the punch bowl while providing no extra utility over existing cloud providers.
When distilled down crypto-compute just seems like cloud compute with extra steps, which is already just using a computer with extra steps.
We already can rent GPUs to run AIs with tokens - those tokens are just managed by govt instead of some random.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I somehow didnt’ get a notification for its post, but thats a terrible idea lol.
We already have AI horde, and it has nothing to do with blockchain.
woop_woop@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I cannot tell if you are being serious or just having fun with buzzwords
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I stopped at block chain
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Oh, I’m being completely serious. I’ve been interested in crypto since about 2013.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
There is no need to use Blockchain for this. Computing pools like this have been used for ages
Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
crypto fizzled years ago without a major use case. source: check google trend history.
bitcoin wouldn’t be useful for tracking the rental of cpu/gpu assets.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, no Bitcoin would be the wrong chain for that. But there are other chains that would work better for such a use case.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The solution to all the world’s computing issues is not “blockchain.”