No Priors Ep. 32 | With NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin

More than 25 million users are using NEAR-powered applications. Co-founder of NEAR protocol and Transformers author Illia Polosukhin joins hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the intersections of crypto and AI technology, what we should expect from AI agents, decentralized data labeling, why AI’s alignment problem is really a human problem, and more. NEAR allows users to effortlessly create and distribute innovative decentralized apps across any blockchain, while helping build a more open web. Before co-founding NEAR, Illia researched AI at Google and co-authored the landmark paper, "Attention Is All You Need." 00:00 - Blockchain, AI, and Web3 Intersection 09:58 - Blockchain and AI 16:07 - Blockchain and AI Integration Challenges 23:35 - Inference and Decentralized Data Labeling 30:13 - Web 3 and AI SaaS Challenges 38:18 - The Future of Hardware Accelerators