points by montagg 4 days ago | 0 comments
Not exactly a coincidence. You don’t get an AI craze without wide availability of GPUs for training. Not for a much longer time.
[–] DanielHB 4 days ago
[–] aquentinn 3 days ago
Yeah of course it would have eventually happened but the GPU demand in crypto speeded it up, that's from Sergey Brin himself: https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/04/29/googles-founder-says-t...
Yes it would have costed them more to train the first few versions of ChatGPT if it wasn't for the crypto mayham, but it would still happen. The hardware was always available and still improving regardless of crypto or not.