@emc, @ninadou , @alxgoh , @zed.emc
Thanks for hosting the second AMA. While I was invited to speak and ask questions at this AMA, due to a unscheduled conflict, I could not make it. I apologize.
Nothing that follows is financial or legal advice. It is meant for education and entertainment purpose only. DYOR.
Thanks @icarus @zire for participating in this AMA as interested parties outside of EMC. I believe that @zire spoke on behalf of Dfinity in this AMA. @zire please correct the above if not true.
These are my impressions of the recording that i reviewed.
I was pleased to learn that @zed.emc mentioned that he was still learning about the IC from a potential perspective for EMC. “Knowledge is proud that she knows so much, Wisdom is humble that she knows no more”.
In his session, @zed.emc covered that EMC could potentially become a distributed hugging-face with the ability to run models in the same user experience as model training. He thought it possible to have this developed in a couple of months. (I think that this is way too aggressive, but i will come back to it).
He , then, discussed an real world workflow of game development on EMC that could significantly reduce the art-development and design time, money and speed aspect of it. This is a useful use-case because it links EMC & IC to a use case outside of the “crypto” eco chamber. My impression is that how it would be really operationalized(think Unity, Blender) is something that would need a documented workflow.
Additionally he announced an Hackathon in late July; which would be awesome for AI developers. This would be more a carnival style hackathon. My impression is that this is a great idea; however significant preparation time is needed to be devoted before now and the hackathon; so that the platform is ready for the onslaught as well as enough documentation is created and translated for the developers to be effective. Having it in a Carnival style is brilliant idea!
Somewhere it was discussed that the stable diffusion model as a POC was quite successful with early adopters. While UX can be improved greatly, i think that this was good progress.
@alxgoh gave a rundown of the business aspects of EMC; bringing down the cost of GPU compute to 10-20% of AWS cost. If these numbers can be achieved, it would be a game changer; as i have mentioned before. He also acknowledged that a lot more GPU compute power needs to be brought on; for which the team is negotiating with large former ETH miners.
@zire mentioned that he was impressed with the street creds of the EMC team. He also mentioned that EMC could be one of the “unicorns” in the crypto space through a real life use case (I imagine something like game development).
@icarus came with the perspective of hosting EMC & IC nodes. Hia take on the models residing on IC resembles my philosophy of how deeper ties into IC as a layer 2 can be made. That said i think that there are significant technical and SLA related challenges to achieve this in context of IC.
Overall the meeting was quite positive from my perspective. I felt that team has become more confident in dealing with a diverse eco-system as IC. They have their vision and they are making progress on the foundational aspects.