Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, NEAR co-founder and former Google AI researcher Illia Polosukhin joins the show to discuss the intersection of crypto and machine learning.
Show highlights: 

whether Signature was shut down because of its crypto arm

whether banking crypto is riskier than banking other industries

how Balaji’s $1 million BTC bet is just highly effective marketing

whether the Fed is doing quantitative easing again

how the artificial intelligence industry has changed over the years

why Illia says that “open source always wins”

the intersection of blockchain technology and AI

whether a broken Tesla could become the world’s greatest investor


Hosts


Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly 


Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures


Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly 

Guest

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of Near
Disclosures
Links
Signature and Banking


Unchained:


$4 Billion in Crypto Deposits Not Included in Flagstar Signature Deal

Was Signature Bank Actually Insolvent?

Regulators Close Signature Bank Following SVB Collapse

Jim Bianco on Why the Banking System Has Always Been Broken

Nic Carter: Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs


Arthur Hayes: Kaiseki



Balaji’s bet

Coin Edition: Balaji Bets $1M on Bitcoin Price, Says US Hyperinflation Is Underway


Artificial Intelligence:

Richard Sutton: The Bitter Lesson


Facebook: Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model


Stanford: Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model



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