Transformer

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2025 by Balaji Srinivasan · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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May 31, 2025 positive
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Balaji: Zero-Knowledge Tech Is to Crypto What Transformers Are to AI
“Zero knowledge arguably is, and Vitalik's also made this analogy, ZK arguably is to crypto what the transformer is to AI in the sense of, It takes a bunch of things that were previously special case stuff, and it puts it into kind of a common framework where y…”
Balaji Srinivasan May 31, 2025 ▶ 22:29 Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
Jul 8, 2025 neutral
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Patel: No researchers have bypassed transformer quadratic attention scaling
“And while people have found modifications to the transformer, which make the constant time overhead of attention, reduce the constant time overhead on attention to like, you find these little hacks with mixture of experts or latent attention, nobody has gotten…”
Dwarkesh Patel Jul 8, 2025 ▶ 18:05 DWARKESH PATEL on the Biggest Problem of AI
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