The Intersection of AI and Blockchain, with Transformers author and NEAR founder 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. 

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• Illia Polosukhin - Co-founder of NEAR | LinkedIn  
• NEAR

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Show Notes: 

(0:00:00) - Blockchain, AI, and Web3 Intersection

(0:06:39) - How We Might Combine Blockchain and AI for Cancer Research

(0:23:35) - Inference and Decentralized Data Labeling

(0:30:13) - AI SaaS Strategic Challenges

(0:38:18) - The Future of Hardware Accelerators