No PriorsNo Priors Ep. 32 | With NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- September 14, 2023
- Duration
- 42m
- Channel
- No Priors
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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
SPEAKERS
Sarah Guo
hostIllia Polosukhin
guestElad Gil
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of No Priors, featuring Sarah Guo and Illia Polosukhin, No Priors Ep. 32 | With NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin explores transformers, NEAR, and AI Agents: Building a Verified, Decentralized Web3 Future Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the Transformers paper and co-founder of NEAR, discusses how his AI background led to building NEAR as a "blockchain operating system" that abstracts Web3 complexity for users and developers.
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