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Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't. I pointed out that no significant blockchains used GPUs (especially not Ethereum, the main NFT-supporting blockchain, which has transitioned to proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work). That puts them outside the question of "wastefulness" altogether, and irrelevant to the subject at hand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"it's not wasteful because now they're only wasting less resources"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. The comment I responded to said:

We really need to tax energy used by GPU-burning projects differently. AI training, blockchain, whatever. Such a wasteful endeavour.

And I pointed out that blockchain doesn't use GPUs any more. NFTs weren't even mentioned specifically. Then the thread went further into discussing AI specifically, not even blockchain at that point, and you jumped in to say "people still use nfts". It was almost a non-sequitur.

I'm not saying anything about NFTs. You don't need to jump in and "defend" them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

nfts are wasteful
your justification for ai not being a wasteful use of resources is that you personally use them
people still use nfts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But NFTs aren't wasteful. They're run on a proof-of-stake blockchain, no big computing power is used to back them. Your point about NFTs is false, I didn't mention NFTs in the first place, I don't see the relevance of any of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But NFTs aren't wasteful.

i feel this take is a pretty good justification not to care about your opinion on things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What exactly are they "wasting?" Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake on 15 September 2022. If you are still criticizing NFTs for their environmental impact you're a year and a half out of date.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"it's not wasteful because now they're only wasting less resources"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You didn't answer the question. What exactly are they wasting? And what does this have to do with AI at this point, anyway? You jumped in with this NFT thing and I still fail to see the relevance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

oh no their ai is broken they're stuck in a loop