AI pioneer Illia Polosukhin, one of Googles Transformer 8, wants to democratize artificial intelligence
Summary
Before Illia Polosukhin left Google in 2017, he had a brainstorming lunch and then returned to his desk to build what may have been the very first transformer, the neural network architecture that makes generative artificial intelligence possible. Seven of them appeared on stage together for the first time at Nvidia s annual developer conference in March, where CEO Jensen Huang said, "Everything that were enjoying today can be traced back to that moment." By the time the formative paper was published at the end of 2017, Polosukhin had exited Google to start his own AI company, Near, with fellow software engineer Alexander Skidanov. But if you want to move really fast and, importantly, put something in front of a user then Google is a big company with a lot of processes and, very rightfully so, security protocols, etc., that are required." Watch the video to hear the full conversation between CNBCs Katie tarasov and and Illia Polosukhin.