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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
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[–] jarfil 1 points 1 year ago

training AI instead of finding blocks

There is no "finding blocks" in Bitcoin, it isn't Minecraft. Miners work on "finding a better hash", for whatever block they want to propose. The two actions, creating a block, and working on finding a hash, are separate.

In a "proof of training an AI" blockchain, there would still be a hash linking one block to the previous one, just the proof for accepting a new block would no longer be looking for another (useless) hash.