New prime just dropped. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a group of volunteers who search for prime numbers that are (2 to the...

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

  • xep@fedia.io
    34·
    11 days 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.

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      11 days ago

      I think they’re comparing the huge amount of computing power used for both AI and finding primes.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        11 days 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.