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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    27 days ago

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

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        27 days 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.

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      27 days ago

      Yeah. Stuff like this, work in medical treatments and new drugs, I’m on board.

      Using it to replace human workers or steal their hard work to train them?

      Fuck you sideways with a cactus, you corporate fucks.