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
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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