Microsoft Patent Proposes Paying Gamers to Let AI Train on Their Idle PCs
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Microsoft Patent Proposes Paying Gamers to Let AI Train on Their Idle PCs
Microsoft could turn gamers' graphics cards into a potential source of extra income by allowing artificial intelligence companies to use their idle computing power for training models. A newly published patent describes a system that could reward PC owners for lending their unused GPUs to help run AI workloads, potentially giving gamers a financial incentive to share hardware they already own. The patent, titled 'Opportunistic Micro-training on …
While Sam Altman covets the RAM of our PCs, Microsoft has other plans to make use of our machines. The one to bring back the distributed calculation to the taste of the day, with a promise that inevitably recalls that of the mining of cryptocurrency.Read more on The Hardware Counter
In a patent application filed last year, Microsoft describes a system that would allow players to earn money by letting the firm use their untapped GPU power to train AI.
And if your graphics card could bring you money while you're not playing? That's an idea that might well become a reality at Microsoft. Indeed, Redmond's firm has just seen a particularly interesting patent application published, which describes a system that allows us to exploit the unused power of our PC's GPUs to drive artificial intelligence models. And contrary to some initiatives that exploit our data without necessarily asking us for our …
Any gaming PC could earn money when it's not in use. Microsoft came up with the idea of using the power of graphics cards to train artificial intelligence. In return, owners of the hardware could receive... Full version of the website: https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/microsoft_gpu_zarabianie-55965.html
Powerful gaming PCs often stand around unused for hours. Microsoft has an idea of how to use this time economically. But before players can make money with it, some questions need to be clarified.
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