Illia Polosukhin

We actually have NeoCrowd been running since 2021.

It has zero employees.

It's, you know, employed thousands of people around the world doing crowdsourcing.

So the reality is like a lot of the supporting infrastructure is just some forms of marketplaces that blockchain is really well designed for.

Same for hardware, compute.

But as you kind of progress forward and you imagine these AI systems are becoming the interface.

And so my main thesis is,

AI will be the way we interface computing.

So it will be the operating system.

This was my thesis with Near AI.

I was saying back then in 2017 that like, hey, computers will write all the code, which means the operating system and apps are going to be just replaced by this AI that's yours that is just writing all the code.

And one of the implications is like, okay, well, that kind of removes a lot of like SaaS and a bunch of other components, but you still need kind of how my AI talks to your AI, how they identify each other, et cetera.

So you kind of need to upgrade a lot of the core network infrastructure for this world where it can fake a lot of stuff.

You know, you obviously have like

real civil resistance.

We've already seen this with AI.

You need micropayments for actually exchanging services that, again, doesn't rely on credit cards and other things.

And so as you go down the service architecture that current operating systems use, a lot of it breaks with AI.

And so you kind of need to fix it.

And blockchains have all the pieces figured out, or at least has tools to figure out how to solve that.