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326 sats \ 4 replies \ @Cje95 17 Jul \ parent \ on: Struggling bitcoin miners seek deals with AI companies bitcoin

I could write an essay on this because there seems to be a divide between BTC advocates and the AI industry. It all boils down to the AI application. With instances where memory is important like Deep Learning also known as Nural Network architecture ASICs could perform up to 10x better than GPUs.

AI itself is undergoing a huge change right now in the accelerator area and GPUs are going to move from being a basic thing you need for AI to an application-specific thing just like ASICs are.

5 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 17 Jul

Please do write an essay on this topic ;) For now, have a few sats already.

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 17 Jul

I just threw some links up above that cover it! But here it is as well!

Here is a published paper on the area of AI and ASICS

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141933122000163

And here are a couple of companies that deploy ASIC AI accelerators

https://wccftech.com/ai-startup-claims-sohu-asic-ai-transformer-engine-magnitude-faster-nvidia-blackwell-b200-gpus-cheaper-too/

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/intro-to-tpu

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture OP 17 Jul

Great stuff, thanks! I feel like this was bound to happen

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 17 Jul

I think of it as while some of the hardware might not be perfect or optimal you can make software changes and adapt the AI to still leverage the technology at hand. Semiconductors will always be in need so while miners may before less efficient every few years the hardware within them can be adapted for other uses or just straight up recycled.