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Re:An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About AI’s iPho... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:16PM (#35310014)
AI (on GPUs) has been ramping up for more than the last 10 years, crypto was a fly by night thing in comparison.
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Re:An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About AI’s iPho... by px43 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:28PM (#35310512)
GPU mining was only really a thing in the cryptocurrency space for a few years, maybe 2011-2013. Miners moved on to FPGAs for most things, and then ASICs shortly after. There were a few mildly GPU friendly cryptocurrencies, but the vast majority of GPU power used in the past decade has been for deep learning, which really took off in 2008, before Bitcoin was a thing.
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Re:An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About AI’s iPho... by seanmcdirmid on Sunday March 26, 2023 @01:57AM (#35311498)
The paper came out in 2009, then another breakthrough in 2010, but I don’t think it got to production until 2011 or so.
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