• @thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    -13 days ago

    Blockchain mining, completely open source and run on local GPUs, is no worse for the environment than gaming via this logic. I think that’s easily disprovable.

    • psychadlligoat
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      53 days ago

      except Blockchain mining has no practical use that can’t be solved using simpler tech, AI does have those applications

      • @thesmokingman@programming.dev
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        13 days ago

        Not yet, not for some time, and certainly not at single local GPU running at minimal use. Both you and the commenter I was responding to seem to forget how massive the @home projects were.

        • @nagaram@startrek.website
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          32 days ago

          For simply productivity like Copilot or Text Gen like ChatGPT.

          It absolutely is doable on a local GPU.

          Source: I do it.

          Sure I can’t do auto running simulations to find new drugs and protein sequencing or whatever. But it helps me code. It helps me digest software manuals. That’s honestly all I want

          Also, massive compute projects for the @home project are good?

          Local LLMs runs fine on a 5 year old GPU, a 3060 12 gig. I am getting performance on par with cloud ran models. I’m upgrading to a 5060ti just because I wanted to play with image Gen.