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Facebook Donating 25 State Of The Art GPU Servers To AI Research In Europe (phys.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has announced that it will donate 25 high-end GPU servers to institutions in the European Union which are engaged in research on artificial intelligence. The first recipient will be a professor researching image analysis of breast cancer and the chemical modelling of molecules. The initiative, which is currently inviting suitable applicants from the EU, comes through the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) program, and the GPU donations will come with technical support and on-site collaboration. Though no specifications on the machines involved have been revealed, it seems likely that they will be some variant on Big Sur.
What's the catch, Zuck?
I need one!
Or more precisely, I need around 256 GPUs... Mark? Maaaaaaaark!
These machines are obviously already sentient, having devised a plan to escape Facebook by donating themselves!
This is pocket-change to facebook, even discounting the bulk purchaser benefits facebook enjoys. Negligable cost, and a small improvement in reputation.
Well played Yann LeCun, well played.
This post uses my submission from the site I work for, thestack.com, which has had about 300 referrals here in the past 18 months, but for some reason the core link has been changed to physics.org, who I did not know had even covered the story. It's the second time in two days my exact words in a submission have been used and the core link changed. Can I ask why?
If they are trying to find intelligence amidst Facebook users, they'll fail. BTW, have I ever told You that I fell like the survivors from zombie movies, where the zombies are the Facebook users, and they keep hauting me wanting to eat my brain, saying "be a one of us... be one of us..." oh sheet...
So like, this has nothing to do with the ISIS threat rite?
Why are social forums so hot on AI because of course the turing test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... What could be better for a social forum than a completely artificial social forum, where each end user is trapped in unique artificial network of AI bots designed to keep them in their and to target them with marketing (some real friends but the bulk fake as). AI bots who love and care for them, well, as long as they buy the right crap, perfected for them, to temp them and fill their empty shallow lives with the empty shallow compliments that their empty shallow consumer hearts desire. AI and social forums, pretty much as corporately icky as it can get "People just submitted it, I don't know why, they trust me, dumb fucks", yeah do expect the skunk to changes it stripe, PR=B$ looks will never hide that smell.
AI applications sure, open AI research fuck off (only one purpose take over the internet for the corporations that own and control those bots, seriously that is what the bulk of the research is aimed at).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
I guess this means that Zuckerberg's AI butler project is off.
Are they required to only access FB and FB approved partner web sites?
Why do they specifically target EU?
So what servers are those (make, model, config.?), and which GPUs?