Why AI Alongside Crypto Will Dominate the Next Decade - NEAR Founder | E193

Illia Polosukhin, CEO of the NEAR Foundation and co-founder of NEAR Protocol, also helped create the transformer architecture behind AI like ChatGPT and Claude, explains what really happens to your data when you use AI and why a handful of companies could end up controlling it.

He also shares how he went from AI to crypto and how crypto's privacy tools are being used to build AI that can't see or use your data without your permission.

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:57 His Mission: Own Your Data, Assets and Choices

04:08 Growing Up With Hyperinflation in Ukraine

05:46 Why Now Is the Best Time To Learn Anything

06:58 The Big Move: Leaving Google

07:56 "Attention Is All You Need" Explained Simply

12:12 Partnerships: @Variational @BitwiseInvest

13:05 Why Google Didn't Launch ChatGPT First

16:01 What the Smartest AI People Still Get Wrong

17:33 How a Payments Problem Led Him to Crypto

24:44 What NEAR Is Today

26:43 Partnership: @KASTxyz

27:30 What NEAR Handles That Other Stacks Can’t

29:05 What Happens To Your Data With Big AI Companies

31:29 What You Should Never Ask a Chatbot

32:52 The 1984 Scenario: Who Controls AI's Instructions?

35:07 How You Can Verify Your AI (The Green Lock)

36:55 Zcash and Private Money Explained

40:31 What Is User-Owned AI?

42:05 Partnerships: @JupiterExchange @Ethena

42:49 How Is User-Owned AI Sustainable

44:58 The Strongest Argument Against Private AI

47:23 Is the AI Doom Story Overhyped?

51:21 The Next Big Shift: Personalized Medicine

54:10 What Humans Will Struggle To Adapt To