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According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years

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[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can dislike corporate hype around ai and celebrate someone finding a legitimate use case for ai.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, you really can't. Same cycles are wasted either way and have zero benefits except for bragging rights. Fucking dumb.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Primes are useful for unique combinations in cryptography, for securing and encrypting connections and communications as well as storing sensitive data such as account ledgers.

AI is the opposite of useful, it creates fake information to dilute real information.

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Watch me, jabroni. I'm doing it right now.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] irmoz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

So now you're concerned with "looking cool". Your priorities are very strange.

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