Cryptocurrencies Add Nothing Useful To Society, Says Nvidia
The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not “bring anything useful for society” despite the company’s powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector. From a report: Michael Kagan, its chief technology officer, said other uses of processing power such as the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT were more worthwhile than mining crypto … ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com Yeah no shit 😆 The value of the current *GPT hype is also questionable and raises a lot of security and privacy concerns for me – But we’ll see – Wake me up when I can run and self-host more of these ML models on modest hardware.