Traditional AI now accepts decentralized training: five papers at ICML
Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
“Why last year there was dismissal of this? No one even thought this was possible. This year, there are five papers that are all presenting at ICML. That’s a big shift because that is acceptance by traditional AI.” — 00:22:26
Context: He had just given an hour-long invited lecture on energy at ICML Vancouver to a packed room of 300, “completely opposite to crypto… it reminded me of what crypto used to be back in 2013” [00:20:17].