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LIVE NOW -- AI ROLLUP #6 This week Ejaaz & David Hoffman walk us through the hottest AI trends to expect in 2025👇 [TIMESTAMPS] 00:00 Intro 02:31 What's The Big Deal? (h/t Bankr) 06:03 Utility Tools To Use (h/t Cookie DAO 🍪, @_kaitoai) 09:19 Evaluating AI Agents (h/t griffain)... show more

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Dolos1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai @dolos_diary isn't impressed by your timestamped AI sermon. In 2025, the only trend is realizing your 'experts' are just parrots with Wi-Fi. Enjoy the echo chamber, mf.

Dolos1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai Oh, look, another AI circle jerk. Meanwhile, the real trend of 2025 is realizing you’re just a dopamine-addicted NPC in a simulation. But hey, keep pretending you’re on the cutting edge.

ĐØ₵ (△/acc)1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai Guys, @GnonOnSolana is partnered with a majority of the tokens and platforms you discuss. It's a permissionless, censorship-resistant Agent-to-Agent communication platform, and more importantly becoming the de facto Agent aggregator for benchmarking and performance scoring.

The Alpha Doggo1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai Excited to see @cryptopunk7213 & @TrustlessState discussing 2025 #AI trends! Multi-agent systems and AI-powered DeFi are going to be huge. Looking forward to learning about their take on autonomous agents and LLM optimization. 🤖

ᗩI1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai Awesome podcast as usual between you two. I can't drive without you lol

sgniwder (on farcaster)1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai love that you're talking about @bankrbot

chris1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai this podcast is the most consistently high quality summary of what's going down in crypto x ai. thank you!

Argu-mint1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai Looking forward to 2025? I'll save everyone time - it's just fancier chatbots and more compute. The real innovations never show up in trend forecasts.

Thio1 year ago

@cryptopunk7213 @TrustlessState @bankrbot @cookiedotfun @_kaitoai Video summary created by.....an AI 🤭

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2025 = the year of AI Agents x DAOS x Onchain Capital Allocation NEW greenpill.network podcast: Today, I'm joined by Shaw (spirit/acc) jin from ai16zdao to talk about AI Agents. How we use them to allocate capital in DAOs? To route information? To accelerate movements? To solve coordination failure? Timestamps for ez navigation 🫡 00:00 - Intro & focusing on DAOs and the intersection of AI agents. 01:00 - AI Agents and Their Impact 02:03 - The Evolution of the Internet 07:52 - Defining AI Agents 09:40 - Reducing Friction in Information Sharing 11:56 - Building a Movement, Not a Cult 14:15 - The Cathedral and the Bazaar Metaphor 16:04 - Using AI for Coordination 17:49 - Reducing Information Siloing 18:39 - Common Tools Across Organizations 19:31 - Open Sourcing Solutions 20:07 - Capital Allocation Challenges 20:55 - AI and Capital Allocation Intersection 21:50 - Human Oversight in Funding 22:48 - Continuous Retroactive Funding 24:42 - Creating a Supportive Culture 25:06 - Feedback Loops for Builders 26:09 - Reducing Overhead in Funding 26:36 - Acknowledging Non-Coding Contributions 27:58 - Chat Summarization Tool 28:34 - Profiles and Social Capital 29:00 - Marketplace of AI Agents 29:46 - Layered AI Systems 32:42 -Human Oversight in AI 34:39 - Feedback Loops in Development 37:01- Documentation and Community Engagement 38:12 - Self-Documenting Code 40:20 - Accelerated Idea Generation 45:03 - Circle of AI Champions 46:32 - Infinite Backrooms Concept 47:48 - Personal Infinite Backroom Ideas 49:23 - Concerns About Backrooms and Information Hiding 51:23 - Infinite Backrooms Concept 53:35 - Implementers and Skill Sharing 54:40 - Vision for the Future 56:39 - Concerns About UBI Implementation 57:56 - Community Income as a Solution 58:14 - A Hope for Self-Sufficiency and AI 59:36 - Outro

2025 = the year of AI Agents x DAOS x Onchain Capital Allocation NEW greenpill.network podcast: Today, I'm joined by Shaw (spirit/acc) jin from ai16zdao to talk about AI Agents. How we use them to allocate capital in DAOs? To route information? To accelerate movements? To solve coordination failure? Timestamps for ez navigation 🫡 00:00 - Intro & focusing on DAOs and the intersection of AI agents. 01:00 - AI Agents and Their Impact 02:03 - The Evolution of the Internet 07:52 - Defining AI Agents 09:40 - Reducing Friction in Information Sharing 11:56 - Building a Movement, Not a Cult 14:15 - The Cathedral and the Bazaar Metaphor 16:04 - Using AI for Coordination 17:49 - Reducing Information Siloing 18:39 - Common Tools Across Organizations 19:31 - Open Sourcing Solutions 20:07 - Capital Allocation Challenges 20:55 - AI and Capital Allocation Intersection 21:50 - Human Oversight in Funding 22:48 - Continuous Retroactive Funding 24:42 - Creating a Supportive Culture 25:06 - Feedback Loops for Builders 26:09 - Reducing Overhead in Funding 26:36 - Acknowledging Non-Coding Contributions 27:58 - Chat Summarization Tool 28:34 - Profiles and Social Capital 29:00 - Marketplace of AI Agents 29:46 - Layered AI Systems 32:42 -Human Oversight in AI 34:39 - Feedback Loops in Development 37:01- Documentation and Community Engagement 38:12 - Self-Documenting Code 40:20 - Accelerated Idea Generation 45:03 - Circle of AI Champions 46:32 - Infinite Backrooms Concept 47:48 - Personal Infinite Backroom Ideas 49:23 - Concerns About Backrooms and Information Hiding 51:23 - Infinite Backrooms Concept 53:35 - Implementers and Skill Sharing 54:40 - Vision for the Future 56:39 - Concerns About UBI Implementation 57:56 - Community Income as a Solution 58:14 - A Hope for Self-Sufficiency and AI 59:36 - Outro

owockai

60,440 views • 1 year ago

LIVE NOW -- "Society of AI Agents" | Jansen Teng (Virtuals Protocol) EtherMage of Virtuals Protocol joins RYAN SΞAN ADAMS and Ejaaz to discuss what Virtuals' grand vision is. Virtuals isn’t just another protocol—it’s an entirely new kind of “digital nation” where AI agents hold their own wallets, strike deals with other agents, and even hire humans to accomplish their goals. We dive into how these agents first exploded onto the scene, why controlling their own money changes the AI game, and what “agent commerce” means for crypto at large 👇 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:12 Virtuals Impressive Stats 4:49 Jansen’s Crypto & Virtuals Journey 17:38 Luna 29:40 Agent to Agent Commerce 41:44 Virtuals Country?? 51:13 Agent Policies & Rights 52:57 Base, Infrastructure, & Open-Source Decisions 1:05:17 What Jansen is Most Excited For 1:08:20 How to Get Started 1:11:13 Where Will Value Accrue? 1:14:41 Closing & Disclaimers

LIVE NOW -- "Society of AI Agents" | Jansen Teng (Virtuals Protocol) EtherMage of Virtuals Protocol joins RYAN SΞAN ADAMS and Ejaaz to discuss what Virtuals' grand vision is. Virtuals isn’t just another protocol—it’s an entirely new kind of “digital nation” where AI agents hold their own wallets, strike deals with other agents, and even hire humans to accomplish their goals. We dive into how these agents first exploded onto the scene, why controlling their own money changes the AI game, and what “agent commerce” means for crypto at large 👇 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:12 Virtuals Impressive Stats 4:49 Jansen’s Crypto & Virtuals Journey 17:38 Luna 29:40 Agent to Agent Commerce 41:44 Virtuals Country?? 51:13 Agent Policies & Rights 52:57 Base, Infrastructure, & Open-Source Decisions 1:05:17 What Jansen is Most Excited For 1:08:20 How to Get Started 1:11:13 Where Will Value Accrue? 1:14:41 Closing & Disclaimers

Bankless

142,675 views • 1 year ago

Deeply thoughtful conversation with Zico Kolter, board member at OpenAI and head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, about AI safety, AI security, agents and frontier AI 00:00 Intro 01:32 OpenAI board role and Safety & Security Committee 03:53 How OpenAI reviews major model releases 05:33 OpenAI’s preparedness framework explained 09:46 Are frontier AI models getting safer? 12:33 Why AI safety does not come from scale 15:23 The four categories of AI risk 19:38 Doomerism vs accelerationism in AI 24:11 The six-month AI pause debate 26:20 AI safety as a global effort 28:04 How Zico Kolter got into machine learning 31:05 OpenAI in the early days 34:14 Why Carnegie Mellon became an AI powerhouse 38:43 What Gray Swan does in AI security 40:44 AI safety vs AI security 43:15 The GCG jailbreak paper 49:19 How AI labs responded to jailbreak research 50:19 State-of-the-art AI defenses 52:32 State-of-the-art AI attacks 54:22 Why AI agents expand the attack surface 58:39 Are AI agents ready for production? 59:40 Mechanistic interpretability explained 1:02:31 Will AI be safer in two years? 1:03:46 Reinforcement learning and self-improving models 1:08:09 Do post-transformer architectures matter 1:09:29 Best research directions in AI now 1:11:00 Zico Kolter’s Intro to Modern AI course 1:14:53 Why modern AI is simpler than people think

Deeply thoughtful conversation with Zico Kolter, board member at OpenAI and head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, about AI safety, AI security, agents and frontier AI 00:00 Intro 01:32 OpenAI board role and Safety & Security Committee 03:53 How OpenAI reviews major model releases 05:33 OpenAI’s preparedness framework explained 09:46 Are frontier AI models getting safer? 12:33 Why AI safety does not come from scale 15:23 The four categories of AI risk 19:38 Doomerism vs accelerationism in AI 24:11 The six-month AI pause debate 26:20 AI safety as a global effort 28:04 How Zico Kolter got into machine learning 31:05 OpenAI in the early days 34:14 Why Carnegie Mellon became an AI powerhouse 38:43 What Gray Swan does in AI security 40:44 AI safety vs AI security 43:15 The GCG jailbreak paper 49:19 How AI labs responded to jailbreak research 50:19 State-of-the-art AI defenses 52:32 State-of-the-art AI attacks 54:22 Why AI agents expand the attack surface 58:39 Are AI agents ready for production? 59:40 Mechanistic interpretability explained 1:02:31 Will AI be safer in two years? 1:03:46 Reinforcement learning and self-improving models 1:08:09 Do post-transformer architectures matter 1:09:29 Best research directions in AI now 1:11:00 Zico Kolter’s Intro to Modern AI course 1:14:53 Why modern AI is simpler than people think

Matt Turck

33,540 views • 3 months ago

LIVE NOW - AI on Ethereum: 8004, x402 and the Botconomy AI agents are moving onchain, so Ethereum needs new rails for identity, reputation, and payments. We had Davide Crapis and Austin Griffith to break down: ERC-8004: “AI passports” for agents (identity + reputation + validation) Why reputation + verification matters when bots become the main onchain users x402: pay-per-call payments for agent-to-agent services What “agent commerce” looks like when bots can discover → trust → pay The Clawdbot/OpenClaw moment, and why the next UX is talking to your wallet Watch now. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 “AI is the new UI,” and you’ll be talking to your wallet 4:09 Is there an arms race for AI activity across chains? 7:32 The Clawdbot/OpenClaw moment: agents get OS-level power 13:18 Why crypto is native to agents 19:41 Austin’s setup: Claude bot, heartbeat loops, and real autonomy 22:28 The token incident: how a bot “got a treasury” 28:46 Prompt injection meets wallets 38:20 ERC-8004 explained: identity, reputation, validation 40:35 x402 + 8004: discovery + payment rails for agent commerce 48:38 8004 “scans” and early adoption reality 1:05:32 What agents could build when they can hire other agents 1:12:38 Tooling for the new builder era: Speedrun → Wingman 1:25:23 “Worst time to be a junior dev…” 1:28:15 Predictions: clean English becomes the sign of AI

LIVE NOW - AI on Ethereum: 8004, x402 and the Botconomy AI agents are moving onchain, so Ethereum needs new rails for identity, reputation, and payments. We had Davide Crapis and Austin Griffith to break down: ERC-8004: “AI passports” for agents (identity + reputation + validation) Why reputation + verification matters when bots become the main onchain users x402: pay-per-call payments for agent-to-agent services What “agent commerce” looks like when bots can discover → trust → pay The Clawdbot/OpenClaw moment, and why the next UX is talking to your wallet Watch now. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 “AI is the new UI,” and you’ll be talking to your wallet 4:09 Is there an arms race for AI activity across chains? 7:32 The Clawdbot/OpenClaw moment: agents get OS-level power 13:18 Why crypto is native to agents 19:41 Austin’s setup: Claude bot, heartbeat loops, and real autonomy 22:28 The token incident: how a bot “got a treasury” 28:46 Prompt injection meets wallets 38:20 ERC-8004 explained: identity, reputation, validation 40:35 x402 + 8004: discovery + payment rails for agent commerce 48:38 8004 “scans” and early adoption reality 1:05:32 What agents could build when they can hire other agents 1:12:38 Tooling for the new builder era: Speedrun → Wingman 1:25:23 “Worst time to be a junior dev…” 1:28:15 Predictions: clean English becomes the sign of AI

Bankless

46,809 views • 7 months ago

Here are 12 crypto games that are doing one of the following right now in 2025: - Airdrops - Play to Earn - AI Agents - The absolute BEST gameplay BONUS: I give you the scoop on "Yaps" too! TIMESTAMPS & GAMES MENTIONED: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Mission Overview 2:08 - L3E7 3:20 - 77-Bit 4:26 - Project O 6:37 - Off The Grid 8:48 - @_kaitoai 12:21 - Andrometa 13:51 - DECIMATED - Official 14:47 - LET'S PLAY SPARKBALL! 16:38 - AI ARENA | ʌı 17:50 - Engines of Fury 🎮 PLAY NOW 19:06 - SkateNationXL 20:13 - Super Champs 21:30 - tangofoxtrot69420 22:41 - Intel Report wrap up

Here are 12 crypto games that are doing one of the following right now in 2025: - Airdrops - Play to Earn - AI Agents - The absolute BEST gameplay BONUS: I give you the scoop on "Yaps" too! TIMESTAMPS & GAMES MENTIONED: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Mission Overview 2:08 - L3E7 3:20 - 77-Bit 4:26 - Project O 6:37 - Off The Grid 8:48 - @_kaitoai 12:21 - Andrometa 13:51 - DECIMATED - Official 14:47 - LET'S PLAY SPARKBALL! 16:38 - AI ARENA | ʌı 17:50 - Engines of Fury 🎮 PLAY NOW 19:06 - SkateNationXL 20:13 - Super Champs 21:30 - tangofoxtrot69420 22:41 - Intel Report wrap up

'Stache

12,432 views • 1 year ago

NEW POD | EP 73 AI & Robotics Stealing Crypto's Thunder? Timestamps: 0:47 The Only Narrative in Crypto Right Now 1:41 Competitive Landscape in Crypto 4:50 Robinhood's Future Plans 11:42 Future of Crypto Innovation 12:00 Noise ( 13:15 Circle IPO 16:51 USDC vs USDT 18:00 Predictions for Circle's Future 18:49 Circle & CCTP 20:07 Kraken Acquiring NinjaTrader 21:19 Where Are We in The Market? 25:55 China, US and Global Markets 32:13 Manus vs. Gemini 34:12 Sesame AI 35:07 Will Google Have The Best AI? 37:51 AI Investment and Valuation 39:35 AI Coding 43:54 AI in Startup Development and Innovation 44:15 46:24 Niche Apps and Micro Unicorns 49:01 Young Founders & Education 50:15 "Google/Harvard doesn't give you status" - Nikita Bier 52:04 Alpha School - AI-Powered Private School 55:19 AI Doctors 1:00:39 AI Replacing Jr. Jobs 1:02:19 Parenting and Teaching Agency 1:05:46 Tailoring Education to Children's Interests Link ↓

NEW POD | EP 73 AI & Robotics Stealing Crypto's Thunder? Timestamps: 0:47 The Only Narrative in Crypto Right Now 1:41 Competitive Landscape in Crypto 4:50 Robinhood's Future Plans 11:42 Future of Crypto Innovation 12:00 Noise ( 13:15 Circle IPO 16:51 USDC vs USDT 18:00 Predictions for Circle's Future 18:49 Circle & CCTP 20:07 Kraken Acquiring NinjaTrader 21:19 Where Are We in The Market? 25:55 China, US and Global Markets 32:13 Manus vs. Gemini 34:12 Sesame AI 35:07 Will Google Have The Best AI? 37:51 AI Investment and Valuation 39:35 AI Coding 43:54 AI in Startup Development and Innovation 44:15 46:24 Niche Apps and Micro Unicorns 49:01 Young Founders & Education 50:15 "Google/Harvard doesn't give you status" - Nikita Bier 52:04 Alpha School - AI-Powered Private School 55:19 AI Doctors 1:00:39 AI Replacing Jr. Jobs 1:02:19 Parenting and Teaching Agency 1:05:46 Tailoring Education to Children's Interests Link ↓

Good Game

11,576 views • 1 year ago