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My new build idles at 3% CPU, and that includes all the bloat of Windows, managing a RAID 1 array, storing HD streams from 4 PoE cameras (BlueIris), and Plex server operations.
AI could be offloading compute and compensating participants. I'd be happy to provide excess compute so long as the compensation were greater than the additional electricity consumption. The compensation could be x dollars per y petaflops.
I could see distributed compute being best for things that don't require an immediate result, such as generation of photos, videos, or sound.
As an aside, I'm finding the majority of my queries via AI summary vs search results. I'll be telling my grandkids it was 2024 that AI became personally useful to me, and they'll listen in astonishment imagining a world before AI.
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