The timing is right. Awareness of the capability, without the ability to make it stick, I’ll wager.
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Link no longer working, cant find the new one. Article is probably down.
Works For Me
http://www.popsci.com/turning-idle-machines-global-supercomputer
not that it says an awful lot…
it does link to
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537831/ai-supercomputer-built-by-tapping-data-warehouses-for-their-idle-computing-power/
which goes into a little more depth.
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Figured it out. Their moron dev’s have setup a re-direct cos im in Aus and their re-direct address is incorrect.
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I discovered that redirect problem the other day with another popsci article sent to me by friends in the US - so annoying popsci, WTF!
Thinking about SAFEnet and a global supercomputer … wondering if the first solid A.I. that passes the Turing test might be built on SAFEnet. Imagining all of Dirvine’s ants forming a global intelligence. 
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Woah, that would be so awesome.