Re:Autoresearch next step: async collaborative for agents SE...
by gavinray on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:08PM
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About 6 years ago, I had a thought:
"There are billions of small devices, like Smart TV's, IoT devices, Smart Thermostats that sit idle most of the time. What if you could combine their unused computing power to do distributed ML model training?"
With RAM and storage becoming commodities, I'll be interested to see if we see efforts to utilize existing internet-connected devices that would otherwise go unused as compute resources.
"There are billions of small devices, like Smart TV's, IoT devices, Smart Thermostats that sit idle most of the time. What if you could combine their unused computing power to do distributed ML model training?"
With RAM and storage becoming commodities, I'll be interested to see if we see efforts to utilize existing internet-connected devices that would otherwise go unused as compute resources.