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The Chopping Block: Why AI Will Change the Course of History in Crypto - Ep. 471

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, NEAR co-founder and former Google AI researcher Illia Polosukhin joins the show to discuss the intersection of crypto and machine learning. Show highlights:  whether Signature was shut down because of its crypto arm whether banking crypto is riskier than banking other industries how Balaji’s $1 million BTC bet is just highly effective marketing whether the Fed is doing quantitative easing again how the artificial intelligence industry has changed over the years why Illia says that “open source always wins” the intersection of blockchain technology and AI whether a broken Tesla could become the world’s greatest investor Hosts Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly  Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly  Guest Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of Near Disclosures Links Signature and Banking Unchained: $4 Billion in Crypto Deposits Not Included in Flagstar Signature Deal Was Signature Bank Actually Insolvent? Regulators Close Signature Bank Following SVB Collapse Jim Bianco on Why the Banking System Has Always Been Broken Nic Carter: Operation Choke Point 2.0 Is Underway, And Crypto Is In Its Crosshairs Arthur Hayes: Kaiseki Balaji’s bet Coin Edition: Balaji Bets $1M on Bitcoin Price, Says US Hyperinflation Is Underway Artificial Intelligence: Richard Sutton: The Bitter Lesson Facebook: Introducing LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model Stanford: Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Not a dividend, it's a tale of two pun.

0:02.4

Now, your losses are on someone else's balance.

0:05.2

Generally speaking, air drops are kind of pointless anyways.

0:08.0

I manage trading firms who are very involved.

0:10.8

I like that heat of the ultimate problem.

0:12.8

DeFi protocols are the antidote to this problem.

0:17.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the chopping block.

0:19.0

Every couple of weeks, the four of us get together

0:20.6

and give the industry insider's perspective

0:22.2

on the crypto topics of the day.

0:24.0

So, quick intro. First, you've got Tom, the DeFi Maven

0:26.2

and Master of Neams.

0:27.6

Next, we've got Turun, the Gigabrain and Grand Poo Bad Conlet.

0:30.6

Today, we've got a special guest with us,

0:32.1

Ilia, who is the founder of Nier.

0:34.2

So, I actually, for today, because we're going to be talking

0:36.4

about AI, I got GPT-4 to write some intros for Ilia.

0:40.6

You're telling us when you like.

0:41.8

First one is Ilia, the Nier Network's Noble Navigator.

0:45.1

Ilia, the brilliant blockchain builder behind Nier.

0:47.7

Introducing Ilia, Nier Protocol's pioneering pilot.

0:50.6

Ilia, the founder and fearless frontiersman of Nier.

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