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 data centers could the people using the AI also contribute a small amount of CPU or GPU power from their own computers? You use the AI and at the same time your machine gives a little computing power back to the network. Other users do the same. Maybe the model or parts of the workload could be distributed between many machines. I know there are huge problems to solve. Privacy. Security. Different hardware. Slow computers. Bad actors. Model size. But I still find the idea interesting. Could this actually reduce the cost and energy required to run AI? Or would we simply move the same problem from data centers to millions of personal computers? Has anyone here experimented with distributed AI or decentralized computing before?
#asknostr #ai #decentralized #p2p #distributedcomputing #opensource
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