[rumblefrog]

Robotaxi & Optumus robot still looks to be years and years away. However, I'm pretty fond of the idea of having distributed compute nodes that performs computations when idle, the idea of reclaiming parking lots, the induction charging and vacuum bots looks pretty sleek as well.

[DaiPlusPlus]

> distributed compute nodes that performs computations when idle

I can't imagine that working well for latency-sensitive applications... like self-driving cars.

[lawn]

Running compute nodes in cars is honestly an even dumber idea than renting out your own car as a taxi.

[kmlx]

> dumber idea than renting out your own car as a taxi.

your car is doing nothing for most of it’s lifetime. renting it out via turo or as a taxi makes sense.

[mplewis]

He just bought a massive data center with thousands of Nvidia boards. Why would the car be an efficient place to do the same work?

[mavhc]

Because getting GWs of power into one building and the cooling it is expensive. Why not let other people buy the computer, provide the power, and it won't need expensive cooling.

Question is: are there enough high latency distributed workloads to sell?

[rumblefrog]

I don't believe it would be efficient, or do I know what compute load he intends these to be. But it's some use for idling hardware.