Illia Polosukhin

So it's kind of, yeah, like shifting to this, like, can you define the framework how to verify things?

do you know the direction can you narrow it down can you it's like really working in this kind of more like idea and think think space and then yeah like how you use those tools to really like scale your execution massively

It's all there.

It's all there.

It is all there.

That's why people cannot sleep because like just one more prompt, man.

Yeah.

You can go to agent.near.ai and just launch it from there.

I'm doing well.

Yeah, it's exciting times.

Yeah, that's a good question.

I think, I think there was like, the answer is, you know, yes and no, as always.

I think it was clear that there's like massive step function that transformers are bringing, but same time, it didn't feel, I mean, it wasn't clear that this is like the step function that they're not going to be another, like, you know, few of those before we get to, I mean, let's just call it AGI level.

Yeah.

I left Google in 2017 right after this work.

To me, I actually thought this rate of improvement continues because 2016, 2015, it felt like we're on exponential growth of AI back then.

Wow.

And so like what we're feeling now, like I kind of thought this is going to be happening in 2017, 2018.

So that's why I was like, hey, I want, you know, we effectively, we started Near actually as an AI company.

It was Near AI, as in AI is near.