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Perhaps soaking up the supply of GPUs has delayed the AI singularity, if only marginally?

• pavlov 3y ago
  Turns out Satoshi was a time traveler who tried to distract humanity from building AIs for at least a decade longer, in order to prevent the extinction of mankind that happened in his timeline. The last remaining human scientists spent their final years hiding from AI patrols, devising a viral idea that could be implemented on 2010 technology and that would suck up the maximum amount of programmer brainpower and silicon resources without delivering any progress towards AI. Cryptocurrency was the solution they came up with. A man who looks surprisingly like Bruce Willis was sent back to seed the idea…
  • hollerith 3y ago
    It is sad that they couldn't think of a way to distract investors that didn't encourage investment in GPU technology.
• lolinder 3y ago
  Alternatively, the enormous increase in GPU production for crypto seems to have translated directly into enormous gains in AI right around the time that crypto hype imploded. For a while there all the dumped mining GPUs were super cheap, and GPU manufacturers had scaled up their manufacturing capabilities to be able to easily meet increased demand as AI ramped up. It's possible AI would have developed more slowly had we not had so many GPUs lying around and nothing to use them for.