Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company Teaser: What We Learned From the Man Who Put the T in GPT
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Dec 3, 2025 
Illia Polosukhin, co-author of the transformative 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and founder of Near Protocol, shares his insights on the future of AI. He reflects on his early predictions for ChatGPT and advocates for 'owning your AI' to safeguard information. The power of blockchain in establishing information provenance is discussed, while emphasizing the importance of human experience in enhancing collaboration with AI. Illia highlights how personal expertise can significantly amplify the effectiveness of AI in any domain.
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Early Visionary Of Transformers
- Illia Polosukhin co-authored "Attention Is All You Need" and helped create the transformer architecture that underpins GPT models.
- He expected ChatGPT years earlier and described being 'too early' for its arrival in 2017.
Clear Primer On Attention And Transformers
- Illia explains transformers and attention and provides a clear primer on what 'attention' means and why it mattered.
- Jeremy says nobody better than Illia can give a basic but authoritative explanation of transformers.
Blockchain For Information Provenance
- Illia argues blockchain can provide provenance and traceability for information like it does for finance.
- Jeremy hadn't prioritized information provenance until Illia convinced him of its future importance.