> It's pretty much letting people with GPUs become a sort of 'mini-cloud provider'. There's no job queue or fancy distributing computing setup. We just let you SSH into a container on someone's computer, and pay for the time used.
I had the same idea a few days ago - but in my head, the process would be wrapped up as a "cryptocurrency" where the AI researchers pay real money and the "proof of work" is useful/"real" work. I ran into 2 issues regarding trust: the first is that how do you verify that the hardware owner is running the real job an not NOOP'ing and sending false results? The second issue is how do you protect the hardware from malicious jobs? GPUs have DMA access - how do you stop task submitters from rooting your box and recruiting it into an AI botnet (for free)?I ended up dismissing the idea, but if you could work out these 2 issues, there's money to be made...
I had the same idea a few days ago - but in my head, the process would be wrapped up as a "cryptocurrency" where the AI researchers pay real money and the "proof of work" is useful/"real" work. I ran into 2 issues regarding trust: the first is that how do you verify that the hardware owner is running the real job an not NOOP'ing and sending false results? The second issue is how do you protect the hardware from malicious jobs? GPUs have DMA access - how do you stop task submitters from rooting your box and recruiting it into an AI botnet (for free)?I ended up dismissing the idea, but if you could work out these 2 issues, there's money to be made...