Intro

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

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