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I wonder if we'll end up in a future where gaming GPUs will be restricted from running ML algorithms, to prevent private individuals from running advanced deepf
by dreamyfigment 4y ago
I wonder if we'll end up in a future where gaming GPUs will be restricted from running ML algorithms, to prevent private individuals from running advanced deepfakes/DALLE-10 or whatever.
- UmbertoNoEco 4y agoThat's a scary and realistic future. Any good (fiction or non-fiction) book on this? By "this" I mean governments trying to control overtly or secretly the use of computing resources. Bonus points if it is not Charlie Stross (I can't stand his writings).
- merlinscholz 4y agoI mean Nvidia has already tried to do that with crypto mining
- angusturner 4y agoGood on them. As a researcher it is so disheartening when GPUs get hoovered up by people participating in proof of waste pyramid schemes. Likewise, if google decides it wants to preserve its service for students and researchers, then I hope that people chewing up resources for malicious/questionable use-cases are booted off.
- Method-X 4y agoThis is terrifying. If only a certain class of people has access to this technology (i.e. governments and huge tech companies), the temptation to use that technology to control the class of people who don't will be too much.
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- est31 4y agoThere is this talk about the civil war on general purpose computing by Cory Doctorow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg He gave the same talk at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI It's slowly becoming reality.
- dekhn 4y agoWe live in a renaissance of general purpose computing.
- alaricus 4y agoGraphics is increasingly using ML, so I doubt it. But still, don't give them any ideas :)
- ahefner 4y agoMore likely the high end ML accelerators become so specialized as to diverge from GPUs. Carry on trying to use your gaming GPU for ML, with the knowledge that professionals are using hardware 100x as powerful.
- heavyset_go 4y agoGPU manufacturers have been talking about splitting the GPU market with products that are locked into only serving specific use cases like PC gaming, machine learning and cryptocurrency mining. That's to say manufacturers want to prevent someone who buys a gaming GPU from using it to mine crypto or for ML, and they don't want someone who buys a ML GPU to use it for mining, and so on.