Distributed computing using Windows machines.

Here is an idea:

“There’s a potential… when the computer is not used to actually run distributed inference. If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a base of 1 billion Windows PCs and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 1000 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.

And even in a future where the computer is, perhaps, used 50 hours a week, that still leaves over 100 hours a week where the desktop inference computer could be doing something else. And it seems like it will be a waste not to use it.”

Is this viable? Would you agree, instead of Microsoft pushing ads or require a subscription, to grant them the use of your PC computing power in its downtime?