More than 25 million users are reaping the benefits of NEAR Protocol’s blockchain operating system, and according to NEAR’S Co-founder, Illia Polosukhin, it might just be the key to a democratized Web3. Hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil speak to Illia about the powerful crossroads between NEAR’s OS and AI technology, what we should expect from AI agents, 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."

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Show Notes: 
(0:00:00) - Blockchain, AI, and Web3 Intersection
(0:09:58) - Blockchain and AI
(0:16:07) - Blockchain and AI Integration Challenges
(0:23:35) - Inference and Decentralized Data Labeling
(0:30:13) - Web 3 and AI SaaS Challenges
(0:38:18) - The Future of Hardware Accelerators