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Re:Is AI the Next Crypto? Insights from 2M HN Comments by Closi on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:32PM (#38196531)
More expensive to run but cheaper to write.

Engineers are expensive, so actually the cost/benefit analysis is a little more complex and different problems will have different solutions.

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Re:Is AI the Next Crypto? Insights from 2M HN Comments by __loam on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:30PM (#38198115)
The proliferation of extremely expensive algorithms isn't necessarily good. A lot of ink has been spilled about how much useless work crypto does. We should consider the impact of AI on the total computational resources of the species carefully.
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