Could AI run more like a peer to peer network? I was reading about how much electricity and hardware modern AI systems need and this question came to mind. Instead of everything running inside huge da...
@SkyLords i have been mining bitcoin since 2015, and mining is the closest running example of what you describe. p2p compute at global scale. the energy bill moved around, and coordination cost got added on top of it. mining holds together because anyone can check a hash in microseconds, so bad actors get caught for free. inference has no cheap check like that yet. solve verification first and the hardware diversity stops mattering much.