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Illia Polosukhin

https://x.com/ilblackdragon
Role:
CEO
Company:
NEAR Foundation
About
Illia Polosukhin is Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a scalable, robust, and highly usable blockchain and development platform. NEAR Protocol launched in 2020 and aims to onboard a billion users to the Open Web. Before NEAR, Illia worked in AI research at Google and co-authored the landmark paper, "Attention Is All You Need." Illia has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, TIME, Wired, New York Magazine, and TechCrunch.
Speaking On:
Decentralizing AI: Our Next Great Challenge
Atlantis Main Stage
Spork Castle
February 29, 2024
2:00 pm
Digital Self-Sovereignty in the Age of AI
Atlantis Main Stage
Spork Castle
March 2, 2024
4:40 pm
With the rise of generative AI and the changing regulations and economics around big tech, we are approaching a point of no return. Illia Polosukhin, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," the paper that launched transformers, as well as co-founder of NEAR Protocol, offers a challenge for how AI and Web3 can work together to create a new digital paradigm for self-sovereignty.