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

  • @0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    78 hours ago

    It feels like people are celebrating this but hating on ai developments. not sure if these people are hypocritical or if that’s two different groups of people.

      • @daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        21 hour ago

        Cryptography is moving away from primes. Given the theoretical danger of quantum computer over them.

        Latices is what will theoretically used in the future for cryptography.

    • xep
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      177 hours ago

      Do you mean to say that this achievement had something to do with AI?

      Fermat PRP testing with proofs instead of Lucas-Lehmer testing with full double checks

      Looks like pure mathematics to me.

        • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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          84 hours ago

          Yes but when we use power to find new primes then we know them and can use them in cryptography, but if we use power on AI then we dilute current knowledge with fake knowledge. So it’s a pretty stark contrast imo.

    • @Nutteman@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

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

      • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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        47 hours 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.