The Future of AI with Illia Polosukhin: The Man Who Put the T in GPT
About this episode
Illia Polosukhin discusses the evolution of AI, the role of blockchain in trust, and the future of personal AI ownership.
Illia Polosukhin, co author of Attention Is All You Need and founder of NEAR Protocol, joins Henrik and Jeremy to explore the origins of transformers, the evolution of AI inside Google, and why he believed a major step change was coming years before it arrived. He explains how blockchain can help create trust and provenance in a world where AI increasingly mediates information, and why personal AI ownership will matter as autonomous agents begin acting on our behalf. The conversation ranges from the technical breakthroughs that shaped modern AI to the risks of large scale manipulation and the infrastructure needed to support a trustworthy AI ecosystem.
People in this episode
Hosts: Henrik Werdelin, Jeremy Utley
Guest: Illia Polosukhin
Topics covered
- AI evolution
- blockchain
- trust in AI
- transformers
- autonomous agents
- information mediation
Keywords
- AI
- blockchain
- transformers
- trust
- autonomous agents
- information
- manipulation
- ecosystem
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NEAR Protocol, Google
Books & works: Attention Is All You Need
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