Near Co-founder Illia Polosukhin talks AI and inventing the transformer at Google

Illia Polosukhin is one of the "Transformer 8," a group that many call the founding fathers of generative AI. They co-wrote a paper at Google in 2017 that established the core concept that makes generative AI possible: transformers. Polosukhin left Google to co-found Near, an AI startup and blockchain ecosystem with millions of users. CNBC's Katie Tarasov sat down with Polosukhin to talk about the what he sees as the pitfalls and possibilities of the tech revolution he helped kick off.