Exploring Ilya's Background in Deep Learning and the Evolution of Yield Guild Games

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Ilya shares insights on his deep learning research at Google and developing models for question answering, while exploring the transition of Yield Guild Games into a guild protocol for Web3, enabling guilds to earn crypto through play-to-earn games.

Today Jason is joined by NEAR Protocol Co-Founder, Illia Polosukhin to discuss the future of AI and blockchain technology. In this episode they discuss:

The early days of NEAR
AI x Crypto verticals
User-AI
NEAR's AI R&D lab
Why NEAR is well positioned for AI x Crypto
And much more!

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(12:00) NEAR Protocol early days

(16:06) Crypto/AI verticals

(22:27) User-AI is NEAR & AI concerns

(29:58) User-owned AI business model

(34:40) NEAR AI R&D lab

(41:58) Chain abstraction

(46:15) Why is NEAR positioned for AI?

(49:27) NEAR’s H2 2024 roadmap

(52:20) Outro

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. Its mission is to become the leading community-based user acquisition platform in web3 gaming through fun quests that help players build their onchain reputation

Find out more at https://investors.yieldguild.io/

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Illia Polosukhin's Twitter:

https://twitter.com/kapursanat

NEAR Protocol's Twitter: https://x.com/NEARProtocol

Blockcrunch Twitter:

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YGG Twitter:

https://x.com/YieldGuild

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