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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And it was trying to make more money.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
So it was like an investment.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And so it used Near Intense to effectively trade on all the assets and had Twitter access to see where the sentiment is.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And, you know, it was like up at some points, down at some points.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
But it's a good example of this concept where, yeah, you're effectively, because of decentralized infrastructure, like you can do this right now.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
You can actually spin it up and then, you know, a smart contract can pay for inference and compute.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And you have kind of this full autonomy.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
I think where practically this is going to go is more, I call it like autonomous businesses, right?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
where you still have, like, it still should have some mission, right?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
Like, I think, you know, creating, like, this AI organisms that don't have any, like, any specific mission with, I think this is, I mean, this is cool and people will do it.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
Like, I mean, we had Conway, right, where they just, like, multiply.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
But I think what's interesting is more like, hey, you know, how do we solve global warming, right, climate change?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
We set up one as a mission.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
It can accept donations.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
It can raise funds through a token.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
And then the token holders become the governance layer of this, right?
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
They can effectively update the mission.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
They can vote on some updates to system prompt or provide additional guidance.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
So I think that structure is actually where the AI tokens should be.
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Illia Polosukhin: Why AI Agents Are Still Useless (And What Fixes Them) | NEAR Founder on IronClaw
If there is an AI token, it should be attached to it.