News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero. Parent comment

Re:DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero by mensetmanusman on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @08:19AM (#34803398)
If only there existed a distributed way to incentivize calculation of AI weightings while also providing a currency to encourage scale…
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero by eternalban on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @08:28AM (#34803498)
not an entirely bad idea.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero by lern_too_spel on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:29AM (#34805059)
As many people have pointed out before, the distributed currency part adds energy waste. BOINC accomplishes the same without the waste.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero by mensetmanusman on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:14PM (#34807098)
Of course there will be trade-offs of inefficiency, that is always the case with distribution.

Is it valuable to have open source AI systems is the countering question to that…

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DeepMind has open-sourced the heart of AlphaGo and AlphaZero by lern_too_spel on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:50PM (#34812026)
The point is you can develop open source AI cheaper without blockchain.
[ Parent | on HN ]