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He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save It
Illia Polosukhin doesn't want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is already starting to take shape.
Polosukhin had been frustrated by a lack of progress in his project, using AI to provide useful answers to questions posed by users, and Uszkoreit suggested he try a technique he had been brainstorming that he called self-attention. Now his company is semi-pivoting to apply some of those principles of openness and accountability to what he calls “ user-owned AI.” Using blockchain-based crypto protocols as a model, this approach to AI would be a decentralized structure with a neutral platform. “Then you get this runaway effect where suddenly a few corporations, or maybe the one that gets it first, ends up with a money-printing machine that ultimately creates a zero-sum game that sucks the air out of the economy, and that we can't let happen.”
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