Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Disastrous_Court4545 t1_j94iq2s wrote

Reply to comment by MeatisOmalley in UN says AI poses 'serious risk' for human rights by Circlemadeeverything

You're right that the hardware can handle these models. I'm not arguing that.

What i'm arguing is saying millions of regular computers connected in a single network could rival the processing power of a supercomputer. The limitations of the network cables and network hardware devices aside, the CPUs wouldn't beat a supercomputer unless you somehow connected enough cores into one unit and ran a bunch of stuff using all cores at once. Regular computers can't beat a supercomputer at what a supercomputer is designed to do.

4

MeatisOmalley t1_j94lzt8 wrote

Most supercomputers/servers are just a bunch of nodes/smaller computers running in parallel. The only difference is that they are centralized.

1

Disastrous_Court4545 t1_j94uy46 wrote

Yeah, seems you're right. Then your idea would definitely work.

Too bad the bad actors using large botnets don't use that zombie network for good...

1