The Intelligence Age: A History of AI

From ancient automata to modern neural networks — the story of thinking machines

75 Milestones
700+ Years of history
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Illia Polosukhin

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Illia Polosukhin

Co-inventor of the transformer and co-founder of NEAR Protocol

  • Co-authored "Attention Is All You Need" (2017) while a researcher at Google.
  • Co-founded NEAR Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain platform focused on usability and scalability.
  • Transitioned from AI research to decentralized technology, becoming a prominent figure in the Web3 ecosystem.

Illia Polosukhin is a Ukrainian-born computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-authored the transformer paper at Google. After leaving Google, he co-founded NEAR Protocol, a sharded proof-of-stake blockchain designed for ease of use and developer accessibility. He is notable for bridging the worlds of cutting-edge AI research and decentralized technology.

Milestones

  • The Architecture That Ate AI
    The Deep Learning Revolution Research
    The Architecture That Ate AI

    A team at Google introduced the Transformer, a deceptively simple attention-based model that would become the foundation of virtually every major AI breakthrough that followed.

    2017
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