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ILIA LEFT GOOGLE IN 2017 TO START NEAR AI BECAUSE HE THOUGHT AI WAS ALREADY HERE! @ilblackdragon of @NEARProtocol on Crypto Insider with @cryptomanran says his thesis that AI is…

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🚨ILIA LEFT GOOGLE IN 2017 TO START NEAR AI BECAUSE HE THOUGHT AI WAS ALREADY HERE! @ilblackdragon of @NEARProtocol on Crypto Insider with @cryptomanran says his thesis that AI is going to drive ever…

🚨ILIA LEFT GOOGLE IN 2017 TO START NEAR AI BECAUSE HE THOUGHT AI WAS ALREADY HERE! @ilblackdragon of @NEARProtocol on Crypto Insider with @cryptomanran says his thesis that AI is going to drive everything started when he was 14 in 2004. He thought it was stupid that we need to write code and explain things to a computer instead of just talking to it. He was on the team at Google that worked on the “Attention Is All You Need” paper in 2017. That paper introduced the Transformer, the basis for all modern LLMs. He implemented the first version of the idea. It kind of worked. Then the team got it to modern results. He left Google because he thought the AI moment was going to happen in 2017. So he left to start @near_ai. Watch the FULL video: https://t.co/H4o0UKQgll

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