[ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers

[Jason Resch]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 12:48 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Jason Resch via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] More thoughts on sentient computers
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> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 11:08 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
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> You could certainly download it if OpenAI released it open source, but you
> would not be able to run it on your personal computer. These models
> requires VERY expensive GPUs to run. The hardware cost alone runs into the
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> >…My understanding is that while the training of the model cost millions
> of dollars of computing power, that the model, once trained, can be run on
> a computer with perhaps several thousands of dollars of hardware (around 9
> high-end graphics cards). …Jason
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> OK cool so we have available (have had for nearly 30 years) the ability to
> harness background computing, as was done starting in 1995 to search for
> Mersenne primes (the Prime95 project which continues to this day.)  SETI
> used volunteer background computing to search for ET signals, but in all,
> we never found anything profitable enough to sell our own unused background
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> In chess software, we saw how good chess really can result from
> sufficiently powerful and plentiful calculations.  It sounds to me like AI
> gradually emerges (or a form of software that looks like AI (as brute force
> chess algorithms appear to be playing good chess)) given currently known
> algorithms plus massive computing power.
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> EXCELLENT!  We all have idle compute cycles currently being wasted.  So we
> set up a big collaborative system analogous to Prime95, sell our unused
> cycles, buy other people’s unused cycles, have everybody leave their
> computers on all the time.  A third of the planet is sleeping at any one
> time, so there you have plenty of available background computation
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> Gadersd, did we finally find after 30 years, a practical use for unused
> CPU cycles?
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Great idea! I think Leela used something like that for distributed training
of their Go-playing AI:

https://www.sjeng.org/leela.html

Jason
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