Illia Polosukhin
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13 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Illia Polosukhin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People wouldn't believe me.
And we were too early, right?
That was a real, real challenge.
And so what we were trying to do at the time was trying to get a lot more training data.
And so we had students around the world, Eastern Europe, China, Southeast Asia, who were doing small tasks, small coding tasks for us to generate training data for us.
And we had challenge paying them, right?
You know, students in China don't have bank accounts.
They have WeChat Pay.
Eastern Europe, every country has its own some kind of restrictions.
And so crypto was a pretty natural, actually, like solution we needed for our own problem.
It's like, hey, how do we actually pay people globally without like setting up a ton of entities without, you know, needing to do all the kind of hard work?
payment provider work and crypto seemed like a solution like hey you know you don't need a bank you don't need a yeah an entity in every country you can just send people money over internet but this was already 2018 there was nothing that would like scale work you know in a simple and a cheap way right to to do this for you know we were paying 15 cents per task to people
And so that's kind of how we got into near blockchain.
And so I would say at a time it made a little sense because it was clearly that to us that blockchain was kind of a part of the story for kind of AI evolution.
And at the same time, the hardware, the scale of AI itself wasn't there for what we were trying to do.
Yeah, so I mean, the reason why we started Near AI in 2017 is because we thought it's going to happen like right now at the time, right?
So we actually were way more optimistic thinking that we're almost there, right?
We are on like kind of the curve we're seeing right now.
We thought we were on that curve in 2017, 2018.
And we were wrong.
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