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

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 14, 2023

Duration

42m

Channel

No Priors

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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

  host

• Illia Polosukhin

  guest

• Elad 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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