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

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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 NearDisclosuresLinks

      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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