Very much absurd. A user above posted GPGPU, which I guess stands for General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit.
In the beginnings of computation these kinds of cards were called accelerators. Dedicated consumer sound cards were a thing, the venerable SoundBlaster. I really would like an AI-Blaster coming out.
There is actually ML hardware that is not based on GPU technology: it's called TPU (Tensor processing unit) but only Google uses it. I guess it is easier to repurpose existing technology even if a specialized approach is more efficient in theory.
